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A handbook of dialectic: the art of reasoning from accepted opinions (endoxa) on any proposed subject and of avoiding self-contradiction while defending a thesis. It sets out the four predicables — definition, property, genus and accident —, the “places” or argument schemes, and the rules of the dialectical exercise of question and answer. It is a precious document of teaching in the Academy and a key text for rhetoric and the logic of argument.
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Authorship note
A school treatise of the Aristotelian corpus, regarded as authentic. Like the other surviving treatises, it consists of Aristotle's own teaching materials rather than books meant for the public; the arrangement and titles largely derive from Andronicus of Rhodes's edition (first century BCE). Eight books; probably one of the earliest works, linked to the dialectical practice of the Academy. Bekker 100a–164b.
Editions and translations
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English
The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation
Princeton University Press, 1984
Translation: Varios (traducción de Oxford revisada, ed. Jonathan Barnes)
ISBN 0691016518
Edición en dos volúmenes (Bollingen Series LXXI.2); ISBN del registro de Open Library de la obra completa.
Posterior Analytics. Topica
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 391), 1960
Translation: Hugh Tredennick y E. S. Forster
ISBN 9780674994300
Griego antiguo
Aristotle
Aristotelis Opera, vol. I (ed. Immanuel Bekker)
The Conscious LibraryAristotelis Opera, vol. I (ed. Immanuel Bekker)
G. Reimer / Academia Regia Borussica, 1831
Edición crítica de referencia; su paginación (Bekker) es el sistema universal de cita.
Español
Tratados de lógica (Órganon) I: Categorías. Tópicos. Sobre las refutaciones sofísticas
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 51), 2000
Translation: Miguel Candel Sanmartín
ISBN 9788424902322
Primera edición: 1982.
Other works by Aristotle
- Categories
- On Interpretation (De interpretatione)
- Prior Analytics
- Posterior Analytics
- Sophistical Refutations
- Physics
- On the Heavens (De caelo)
- On Generation and Corruption
- Meteorology (Meteorologica)
- On the Cosmos (De mundo)
- On the Soul (De anima)
- On Sense and the Sensible
- On Memory and Recollection
- On Sleep and Waking
- On Dreams
- On Divination in Sleep
- On Length and Shortness of Life
- On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death
- On Respiration
- On Breath (De spiritu)
- History of Animals (Historia animalium)
- Parts of Animals
- Movement of Animals (De motu animalium)
- Progression of Animals (De incessu animalium)
- Generation of Animals
- On Colours (De coloribus)
- On Things Heard (De audibilibus)
- Physiognomics (Physiognomonica)
- On Plants (De plantis)
- On Marvellous Things Heard (De mirabilibus auscultationibus)
- Mechanical Problems (Mechanica)
- Problems (Problemata)
- On Indivisible Lines (De lineis insecabilibus)
- Situations and Names of Winds (Ventorum situs)
- On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias
- Metaphysics
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Magna Moralia
- Eudemian Ethics
- On Virtues and Vices
- Politics
- Economics (Oeconomica)
- Rhetoric
- Rhetoric to Alexander (Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
- Poetics
- Constitution of the Athenians (Athenaion Politeia) · 328
- Protrepticus (Exhortation to Philosophy) · 350
- On Philosophy
- Eudemus, or On the Soul
- Gryllus, or On Rhetoric · 360
- On Ideas
- On the Good
- On Poets
- Homeric Problems
- Constitutions of 158 Cities
- List of Pythian Victors · 335
- Didascaliae (Records of Dramatic Productions)
- On Justice
- On Kingship and Alexander, or On Behalf of Colonists
- Hymn to Virtue (to Hermias) · 341
- Will · 322
- Letters
- Fragments (collections of the lost works)
- Theology of Aristotle · 840
- Book of Causes (Liber de causis) · 850
- Secret of Secrets (Secretum secretorum) · 950
Sources
- Bekker, Immanuel (ed.). Aristotelis Opera, edidit Academia Regia Borussica. 5 vols. Berlín: G. Reimer, 1831–1870 (vols. I–II, texto griego, 1831).
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