Works of Aristotle
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The Corpus Aristotelicum is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity through Medieval manuscript transmission. These texts, as opposed to Aristotle's lost works, are technical philosophical treatises from within Aristotle's school. Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's nineteenth-century edition, which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.
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Aristotle's works by Bekker numbers
The following list is complete. The titles are given in accordance with the standard set by the Revised Oxford Translation (The Complete Works of Aristotle, edited by Jonathan Barnes, 2 vols., Princeton University Press, 1984). Latin titles, still often used by scholars, are also given. Disputed works are marked by *, and ** marks a work generally agreed to be spurious.
Logic (Organon)
- (1a) Categories (or Categoriae)
- (16a) De Interpretatione ("On Interpretation")
- (24a) Prior Analytics (or Analytica Priora)
- (71a) Posterior Analytics (or Analytica Posteriora)
- (100a) Topics (or Topica)
- (164a) Sophistical Refutations (or De Sophisticis Elenchis)
Physics (the study of nature)
- (184a) Physics (or Physica)
- (268a) On the Heavens (or De Caelo)
- (314a) On Generation and Corruption (or De Generatione et Corruptione)
- (338a) Meteorology (or Meteorologica)
- (391a) On the Universe** (or De Mundo)
- (402a) On the Soul (or De Anima)
- The Parva Naturalia ("Little Physical Treatises"):
- (436a) Sense and Sensibilia (or De Sensu et Sensibilibus)
- (449b) On Memory (or De Memoria et Reminiscentia)
- (453b) On Sleep (or De Somno et Vigilia)
- (458a) On Dreams (or De Insomniis)
- (462b) On Divination in Sleep (or De Divinatione per Somnum)
- (464b) On Length and Shortness of Life (or De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae)
- (467b) On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration (or De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De Respiratione)
- (481a) On Breath** (or De Spiritu)
- (486a) History of Animals (or Historia Animalium)
- (639a) Parts of Animals (or De Partibus Animalium)
- (698a) Movement of Animals (or De Motu Animalium)
- (704a) Progression of Animals (or De Incessu Animalium)
- (715a) Generation of Animals (or De Generatione Animalium)
- (791a) On Colors** (or De Coloribus)
- (800a) On Things Heard** (or De audibilibus)
- (805a) Physiognomonics** (or Physiognomonica)
- (815a) On Plants** (or De Plantis)
- (830a) On Marvellous Things Heard** (or De mirabilibus auscultationibus)
- (847a) Mechanics** (or Mechanica)
- (859a) Problems* (or Problemata)
- (968a) On Indivisible Lines** (or De Lineis Insecabilibus)
- (973a) The Situations and Names of Winds** (or Ventorum Situs)
- (974a) On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias**
Metaphysics
- (980a) Metaphysics (or Metaphysica)
Ethics and politics
- (1094a) Nicomachean Ethics (or Ethica Nicomachea)
- (1181a) Magna Moralia* ("Great Ethics")
- (1214a) Eudemian Ethics (or Ethica Eudemia)
- (1249a) On Virtues and Vices** (or De Virtutibus et Vitiis Libellus)
- (1252a) Politics (or Politica)
- (1343a) Economics* (or Oeconomica)
Rhetoric and poetics
- (1354a) Rhetoric (or Ars Rhetorica)
- (1420a) Rhetoric to Alexander** (or Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
- (1447a) Poetics (or Ars Poetica)