Greek philosopher and polymath who systematized major fields of inquiry—logic, natural philosophy, ethics, politics, and poetics—and whose works became foundational for later Greek, Islamic, Jewish, and Latin scholastic traditions.
Read by Emerson (see Emerson's Reading), Thoreau (see Thoreau's Reading) & Alcott (see Alcott's Library)
2 titles in the Cabinet
Full title: Aristotelous Organon
The Dial's edition: Geneva, 1605
A scholarly presentation of Aristotle's logical corpus (categories, interpretation, analytics, topics, sophistical refutations), designed as a rigorous toolkit for argument, demonstration, and method—often printed with Porphyry's Isagoge and humanist apparatus.
The metaphysics of Aristotle : translated from the Greek, with copious notes, in which the Pythagoric and Platonic dogmas respecting numbers and ideas are unfolded from antient sources. To which is added, a dissertation on nullities and diverging series
The Dial's edition: London, 1801
Aristotle's 'first philosophy' on being, substance, and first causes, rendered in Taylor's distinctive key: heavily annotated to read Aristotle alongside Pythagorean and Platonic number-metaphysics, with an added mathematical 'dissertation.'
