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9223515 No.9223515 [Reply] [Original]

What all should I read of Aristotle?

>> No.9223521

The answer is in the question.

>> No.9224134

>>9223515
just read all of it

>> No.9224174

Try asking this in English.

>> No.9224273

>>9223515
Nicomachean Ethics->Politics->Poetics->Organon->Rhetoric->On the Soul->Metaphysics

Physics and his works on animals are worth reading only if you're interested in the history and origins of natural science.

>> No.9224281

Rhetoric and Poetics, everything else is outdated crap.

>> No.9224297

>>9224281
Name a better system of ethics.

>> No.9224350

>>9223515
Nicomachean Ethics and Poetics are essential, anything else you can give a miss.

>> No.9224356

>>9224297
Any one that doesn't try to awkwardly justify slavery by claiming that some people are actually happy being slaves

>> No.9224377

>>9223515
Categories and metaphysics if you want to get to the real nucleus of his thought. IDK if I'm right but he sorta does remind me of Wittgenstein in a way

>> No.9224395

>>9224356
They are tho.

>> No.9224523

>>9224273
Physics is a very important work in the Aristotelian corpus and aspires to the study the philosophical principles of nature, not the subject matter of modern physics. Don't let the name fool you

>> No.9224535

>>9224356
But some people actually were happy being slaves. Slavery in Ancient Greece wasn't the worst thing in the world, certainly not as bad as what we usually think of slavery as, i.e. 19th century plantations. Anyway, that's the kind of thing that it's possible to easily ignore without it really affecting the rest of his work.

>> No.9225432

anything that interests you from a historical perspective, he was an idiot though

>> No.9225441

All I read was nicomachean ethics, on the soul, and politics and I'm okay

>> No.9225639
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>>9225432

>> No.9225654

>>9225432
Nope.

His theories on life, animals, plants, etc. proved to be the beginning of the natural sciences.

Literal god of modern science.

>> No.9226064

Don't read garbage from misogynists.

>> No.9226075

Is any of his big works clearly outdated and can be skipped?

>> No.9226090

>>9224356
It owns when St Augustine justifies slavery- even in the case in which a good man is enslaved to a wicked man- because both slave and master feel humbled before god.

>> No.9226114

>>9226064
mythsogyny doesn't exist, it's a meme invented by retards who want to pretend they're oppressed

>> No.9226328

>>9223515
I don't understand this comic.

>> No.9226369

>>9226328
the joke is that the cats (cool cats) didn't know that the garbage ape had a blimp. haha

>> No.9226375

>>9226369
Is this some cow tools shit or am I just dumb?

>> No.9226395

>>9226328
>>9226375
Welcome to Heathcliffe.

>> No.9226432

>>9224523

agreed. its necessary reading if you want to understand the development of modern philosophy from the scholastic school of thought, which was essentially aristotelian metaphysics and judaeo-christian god neatly (lol) packaged together.

>> No.9226434

>>9224281

why bother reading any classic then? being outdated is a sorry excuse to dismiss something, especially someone as influential as aristotle.

>> No.9226463

>>9225654
>Literal god of modern science.

>Hurr heavy things fall faster than light things and men have more teeth than women

>I masturbate so hard over metaphysics and reifiy words so much I cant even make basic observations.