The Pocket Aristotle

By Aristotle, Edited By Justin D Kaplan, Justin D. Kaplan

Book Overview

In this extraordinary volume of selections from Aristotle--culled from the monumental Oxford translation by authorities including W.D. Ross, Benjamin Jowett, and Ingram Bywater--editor Justin D. Kaplan has included the most widely read, studied, and quoted works of the great philosopher.Informative notes give the reader a convenient and concise review of each work, illuminating the main ideas. Thoughtfully assembled, The Pocket Aristotle is the essential guide to the man who has often been called the world's most important thinker.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476711224
• ISBN13: 9781476711225
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Good Start

This book is a good starting place for a beginner to Aristotelian philosophy. It is somewhat abbreviated, but it is still worth checking out. It gives a brief summary of each of Aristotle's main fields of philosophy, followed by Aristotle's own explanations. I have looked for the `Pocket' version of other philosophers' works, but I haven't seen any. So I guess just Aristotle's works have been condensed in this convenient form. For a novice, or even a student of philosophy, this book is a useful and accessible resource.