Human beings have always prized friendship. As the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote: “no one would choose to live without friends.” ...

Many years ago, as an undergraduate at Fordham University, I took two courses taught by the same Jesuit professor: one on Plato and one on Aristotle. While both classes were excellent, I strongly ...

His ideas continue to influence contemporary philosophy, education, and our understanding of knowledge and morality even into ...

THE monumental work of the English translation of all the writings of Aristotle by the Oxford Aristotelian Society, under the editorship of Prof. W. D. Ross, has received its latest accession in this ...

A Bonhams New York auction of Fine Books and Manuscripts at 1 pm on Wednesday (8 June, 2016) afternoon will make compelling viewing for those who value the documents which laid the foundations of ...

Aristotle, the world’s first polymath, was born in 384 B.C., studied at Plato’s Academy in Athens, and wrote with insatiable curiosity and dazzling originality—interspersed with breathtaking lapses in ...

EVERY generation of biologist must rediscover Aristotle for itself, to paraphrase Armand Leroi in a BBC documentary, Aristotle’s Lagoon. Four years on, Leroi, a biologist at Imperial College London, ...

Ever since Galileo attacked Aristotle's view of the world, the Greek philosopher's ideas have been regarded as a barrier to scientific progress. Michael Rowan-Robinson disagrees. In the spring of 1998 ...

THE new volume of the Oxford Aristotle will probably appeal to a wider range of readers than any of the others, because it deals with statecraft, theories of government, economics, and constitutions.