So I've finished reading Aristotle's Organon (with incomplete translations of Analytica Priora, Topica, and De Sophistics Elenchis), and now am on to Physica. He's not nearly as fun as Plato, whose works were every bit as mythological and literary as they were philosophical, whereas Aristotle is quite professor-like and even extraordinarily scientific. I mean extraordinary in the sense of looking at the generations that preceded and followed him (at least for a thousand years). While his writing style is monotonous and dry at times (in a way that reminds me of Kant), it's really pleasing to see just how much---of logical and scientific principles---was founded on Aristotle, and why everyone who later sought a better scientific method has had to overthrow some Aristotlelian concept.

Did Aristotle write those? I thought they were notes written by listeners to his public speaking.

(April 1, 2015 at 7:19 pm)Pizz-atheist Wrote: Did Aristotle write those? I thought they were notes written by listeners to his public speaking.

I think I may have heard that was the case with something attributed to him. I've also heard, if I remember correctly, that he wrote 150 separate works, including many dialogues, that only about 1/5 of his writings have been preserved, none of which was actually intended for the public. That's incredible because 1200 years later he was still "the Philosopher."