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. 384–22 BC. Pupil of PLATO, after whose death he travelled round the Aegean (and was tutor to Alexander the Great), and then founded Lyceum in Athens (355 BC; also called Peripatos; hence ‘Peripatetics’). His interests were encyclopaedic, and he contributed to most of the main branches of philosophy and natural science, as well as initiating the systematic study of logic.

His major works of current interest included the Organon (set of treatises mainly on logic), Metaphysics, Physics, De Anima (On the Soul), Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics (fragmentary). See also ALBERT, AMBIGUITY, A PRIORI, AQUINAS, AUGUSTINE, BACON, BRENTANO, BEING, CATEGORIES, CAUSATION, COSMOLOGICAL, DIALECTIC, DIFFERENTIA, ELENCHUS, ENTELECHY, ETHICS, EXPLANATION, FORM, FREEWILL, GOOD, INCONTINENCE, LOGIC, MEANING, METAPHYSICS, MIND, MODALITIES, NEOPLATONISTS, OCKHAM, PLEASURE (bibliography), PLENITUDE, POLITICAL, PROPERTY, REASON, SCOTUS, SENSES, SOCRATES, SPACE, SUBSTANCE, SYLLOGISM, THIRD MAN ARGUMENT, TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENTS, TRUTH, UNIVERSALS, ZENO’S PARADOXES.

J.Barnes (ed.), Oxford Translation of Aristotle, 2nd edn, Princeton UP, 1984.

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