De Anima: Oxford Classical Texts

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath. Taught by Plato, was the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, and geology. Medieval academia was significantly influenced by Aristotle's ideas. His writings comprise the oldest formal study of logic that is known. Medieval academics like Peter Abelard and John Buridan studied them. The father of zoology, political science, biology, and logic have all been credited to Aristotle. Aristotle was born at Stagira, Chalcidice, 384 BC, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) east of the present-day city of Thessaloniki. His father was King Amyntas of Macedon's physician, Nicomachus. Aristotle went to Lesbos with his student Theophrastus when Hermias passed away. Aristotle received an invitation from Philip II of Macedon in 343 BC to teach his son Alexander. Aristotle had an overtly ethnocentric view of Persia. He left a will upon his death in 322 BC, requesting to be buried close to his wife.

Hamlyn's notes provide a helpful running philosophical commentary on each passage translated. The translation throughout is clear and literal...This edition should be welcome in the libraries of those having interests in philosophy of mind or in Aristotelian scholarship./L.S. Carrier/Religious Studies Review Volume 23, Number 3 July 1997.