Aristotle: Selections

Selections seeks to provide an accurate and readable translation that will allow the reader to follow Aristotle's use of crucial technical terms and to grasp the details of his argument. Unlike anthologies that combine translations by many hands, this volume includes a fully integrated set of translations by a two-person team. The glossary—the most detailed in any edition—explains Aristotle's vocabulary and indicates the correspondences between Greek and English words. Brief notes supply alternative translations and elucidate difficult passages.

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Aristotle
Translated, with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary, by Terence Irwin and Gail Fine

1995 - 650 pp.

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Selections seeks to provide an accurate and readable translation that will allow the reader to follow Aristotle's use of crucial technical terms and to grasp the details of his argument. Unlike anthologies that combine translations by many hands, this volume includes a fully integrated set of translations by a two-person team. The glossary—the most detailed in any edition—explains Aristotle's vocabulary and indicates the correspondences between Greek and English words. Brief notes supply alternative translations and elucidate difficult passages.

 

Contents:

Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction

  • Categories, 1-5, 12-13
  • De Interpretatione, 1-4, 7, 9, 12-13
  • Prior Analytics, i 1, 4, 30; ii 23
  • Posterior Analytics, i 1-10, 22; ii 8-10, 19
  • Topics, i 1-5, 9-10, 12; vi 4 (excerpt); ix 22 (excerpt), 34 (excerpt)
  • Physics, i 1, 5-6 (excerpt), 7-9; ii; iii 1-3; iv 10-11, 14 (excerpt); vi 2 (excerpt), 9; viii 1 (excerpt), 4-6 (excerpt), 8 (excerpt)
  • De Generatione et Corruptione, i 1 (excerpt); 3-4, 5 (excerpt); ii 2-5 (excerpt), 9, 10 (excerpt), 11
  • De Anima, i 1, 2-4 (excerpt); ii 1-6, 11, 12 (excerpt); iii 1-3 (excerpt), 4-5, 10-11
  • De Partibus Animalium, i 1, 5
  • De Motu Animalium, 7
  • Metaphysics, i 1-4, 6, 9 (excerpt); ii 1; iii 1; iv 1-6; v 7-8; vii; viii 1-3, 6, ix 1-2, 5-7; xii 6-9, 10 (excerpt); xiii 10
  • Nicomachean Ethics, i 1-10, 13; ii 1-6; iii 1-7; v 1-2, 7, 10; vi 1-3, 5-8, 12-13; vii 1-3; viii 1-3, 9; ix 4, 7-9, 12; x 4-9
  • Politics, i 1-6; ii 1 (excerpt), 2, 3-5 (excerpt); iii 1, 4, 6-12; iv 1, 3 (excerpt), 11; v 1, 8, 9 (excerpt); vii 1-3, 8-9, 13, 15
  • Rhetoric, i 1-2, 5-6, 13 (excerpt); ii 1, 4, 22
  • Poetics, 4 (excerpt), 6-11, 13-15

On Ideas; Glossary; Further Reading

 

About the Authors:

Terence Irwin is Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Keble College.

Gail Fine is Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University.