Aristotle Audio Downloads

Classics of Western Philosophy is a collection of major philosophical works of the Western World. This chronological anthology features key excerpts from ancient, medieval, & modern philosophers.

Classics of Western Philosophy: Volume 2 is a collection of major philosophical works of the Western World. We offer here for your perusal key excerpts from ancient, medieval and modern thinkers. We are excited to offer you this further exploration into the greatest minds in human history.

Classics of Western Philosophy: Volume 3 is an audio collection of essential works from across the wide spectrum of western thought.

Go back to the roots of Western political philosophy with Aristotle's Politics. Aristotle begins in Book I by asserting that men are "political animals".

Aristotle claimed “poetry is more philosophical and more significant than history.” In this postmodern era it is worthwhile to consider Aristotle’s way of connecting beauty, truth, and goodness.

Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling.

In the Nichomachean Ethics— so called after their first editor, Aristotle’s son Nicomachus—Aristotle sets out to discover the good life for man, the life of happiness.

Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and metaphysics.

Metaphysics is essentially a reconciliation of Plato’s theory of Forms that Aristotle acquired at the Academy in Athens, with the view of the world given by common sense and the observations of the natural sciences.

The Rhetoric was developed by Aristotle during two periods when he was in Athens, the first between 367 to 347 BCE (when he was seconded to Plato in the Academy), and the second between 335 to 322 BCE (when he was running his own school, the Lyceum). The Rhetoric consists of three books.