The Categories

Name: The Categories
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9798240128394

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: Martin G Jewell

Unabridged: 1 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Anthony Pica Productions, LLC

Published: 03/31/2026

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Epistemology, Logic

Synopsis

"The Categories" by Aristotle is a philosophical text from ancient Greece that enumerates all possible kinds of things that can be the subject or predicate of a proposition. This foundational work divides everything in human experience into ten fundamental categories, distinguishing between what can be said "of" versus "in" a subject. Aristotle explores substances, quantities, qualities, and relations, providing a framework for understanding reality that influenced medieval philosophy and sparked centuries of debate about language, logic, and existence.

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