Categories

Name: Categories
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781787366497

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: George Easton

Unabridged: 1 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 04/11/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

"Categories" is a philosophical work written by Aristotle, which is widely considered to be one of the most influential works in the history of Western philosophy. The work explores the nature of reality and how it can be classified into different categories. Aristotle begins by examining the concept of substance, which he defines as the fundamental nature of a thing. He then goes on to consider other categories such as quality, quantity, relation, place, time, position, state, and action. These categories help to organize our understanding of the world and provide a framework for understanding the various phenomena that we encounter. Read in English, unabridged.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pinkyivan on March 17, 2016

I'm slowly becoming to think in Aristotelian terms to the point my mom said she has no idea what I'm talking about on few occasions.......more

Goodreads review by Tyler on November 05, 2018

Fairly solid book. I really enjoy this one as a companion to understanding Metaphysics. A lot of the same distinctions he goes over here he would have gone over there. I do like it a fair amount, and I think it is ingeniously detailed. This goes along with almost anything you’re reading in addition:......more

Goodreads review by Vaishali on January 29, 2021

Perfect for academics who make much ado about absolutely nothing :) After you get through the sentiments "Wow this guy had too much time on his hands" and "How does one pay the bills without a tangible skillset?", the treatise is quite an interesting assessment on the philosophy of word structure. W......more

Goodreads review by John on November 08, 2015

It's a pretty fascinating read. I utterly disagree with the author's conclusions, but it's quite obvious that many people adhere to these categories without even realizing it.......more

Goodreads review by Frank on August 31, 2017

Aristotle starts his analysis of logic by analysing language. How insightful, and remarkable as well that so much of what he uncovers applicable to Greek is applicable to modern English. Aristotle immediately goes into a long list of distinctions. There is neither a motivating statement nor any outl......more