Papers
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective
than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
- Aristotle, Rhetoric
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Aristotle's writings for large audiences have been found
only in fragments.
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The remains are treatises which are believed to have been
used for the school, forming the Corpus Aristotelicum; a version of his
Constitution of Athens; some letters; and a few poems.
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The texts of the treatises have problems.
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There is language of a later date used in some that could
not have been from Aristotle and others are of doubtful authenticity.
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Even the works that are believed authentic show additions
from later people.
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The changes found in many of the texts cannot be determined
to originate from Aristotle or from others.
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The following classification of Aristotle's writings is observed:
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(1) Logical writings - Categories, On Interpretation, Prior
and Posterior Analytics, Topics, Sophistical Refutations
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(2) Physical writings - Physics, On Generation and Corruption,
On the Heavens, Meteorological, On the Soul, Parva Naturalia, History of
Animals, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals, Motion of Animals
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(4) Ethical writings - Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemean Ethics,
Magna Moralia, Politics
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