Socrates
Aristotle's testimonies on Socrates
Academic study
Aristotle's testimonies on Socrates
The most important are in the Metaphysics (A 6, 987b1–4, and M 4, 1078b17–32): Socrates dealt with ethical questions, sought the universal and was the first to fix attention on definitions; inductive arguments and universal definition are owed to him, but he did not separate universals from things. In the Nicomachean Ethics (VII 2) Aristotle discusses his thesis that no one does wrong knowingly, and in the Poetics (1447b) he mentions "Socratic discourses" as a literary genre.
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Authorship note
Passages by Aristotle (384–322 BCE), who never knew Socrates but trained for twenty years in the Academy. Their value lies in his explicit distinction between what belongs to Socrates and what is Plato's.
Editions and translations
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English
Socrates
Metaphysics (trad. W. D. Ross)
The Conscious LibraryMetaphysics (trad. W. D. Ross)
The Internet Classics Archive (MIT), 1908
Translation: W. D. Ross
Libro XIII (M), cap. 4.
Español
Socrates
Metafísica (trad. Patricio de Azcárate)
The Conscious LibraryMetafísica (trad. Patricio de Azcárate)
Filosofía en español (Obras de Aristóteles, vol. 10, Madrid, 1875), 1875
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Dominio público.
Other works by Socrates
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 385
- Euthyphro · 395
- Symposium · 380
- Laches · 390
- Charmides · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Protagoras · 385
- Gorgias · 385
- Meno · 385
- Ion · 395
- Lesser Hippias · 395
- Euthydemus · 385
- Theaetetus · 369
- Phaedrus · 370
- Republic · 375
- Greater Hippias · 390
- First Alcibiades · 360
- Parmenides · 365
- Other dialogues of the Platonic corpus featuring Socrates · 360
- Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates) · 371
- Apology of Socrates (Xenophon) · 380
- Symposium (Xenophon) · 380
- Oeconomicus (The Estate Manager) · 362
- The Clouds (Aristophanes) · 423
- Life of Socrates (Diogenes Laertius, Lives II 18–47) · 230
- Fragments of the other Socratics (Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Phaedo, Euclides) · 380
- Verses composed in prison (lost) · 399
- Socratic Epistles · 200
Sources
- Aristóteles. Metafísica A 6, 987b1–4, y M 4, 1078b17–32; Poética 1, 1447b11. Trad. inglesa de W. D. Ross (Oxford, 1908; Internet Classics Archive, MIT); trad. española de Patricio de Azcárate, Obras de Aristóteles, vol. 10, Madrid, 1875.
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