Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)

Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve

Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle—constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years—has long been considered the best available one-volume Aristotle.

Highlights of this edition:

• Selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric, among others.
• Complete works of:
  • On the Soul
  • On Generation and Corruption
  • Physics
  • Metaphysics
  • Nicomachean Ethics
  • Politics
  • Poetics

Appearing in ebook format at long last, this edition offers a comprehensive collection of Aristotle’s most influential writings.