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Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

The Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2 includes translations of various treatises and dialogues, showcasing Aristotle's philosophical and scientific thought. This revised Oxford translation is renowned for its accuracy and scholarly depth. more

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Aristotle
Aristotle

Aristotle, a renowned Greek philosopher, is one of the founders of Western philosophy. His thoughts covered a wide range of fields, including ethics, logic, politics, and had a profound impact on the world. more

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“Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.”

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Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle
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“It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.”

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Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
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“Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.”

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Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric
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