Aristotle's writings
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Aristotle's writings are the surviving corpus of works by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, foundational to Western philosophy and science and encompassing logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, biology, and more.
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Target entity: Aristotle's writings Context triple: [Empedocles, describedIn, Aristotle's writings]
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Aristotle
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and natural science profoundly shaped Western thought and intellectual history.
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Aristotle's Politics
Aristotle's Politics is a foundational work of ancient Greek political philosophy that systematically examines the nature of the city-state, citizenship, constitutions, and the pursuit of the good life in political communities.
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Commentaries on Aristotle
Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential medieval philosophical and theological works in which St. Thomas Aquinas analyzes and interprets Aristotle’s writings, integrating them with Christian thought.
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Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, whose dialogues and ideas laid the foundations of Western philosophy.
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Plato's Republic
Plato's Republic is a foundational philosophical dialogue in which Plato explores justice, the ideal state, and the nature of reality through Socratic conversations.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aristotle's writings Target entity description: Aristotle's writings are the surviving corpus of works by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, foundational to Western philosophy and science and encompassing logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, biology, and more.
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A.
Aristotle
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and natural science profoundly shaped Western thought and intellectual history.
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B.
Aristotle's Politics
Aristotle's Politics is a foundational work of ancient Greek political philosophy that systematically examines the nature of the city-state, citizenship, constitutions, and the pursuit of the good life in political communities.
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C.
Commentaries on Aristotle
Commentaries on Aristotle are a series of influential medieval philosophical and theological works in which St. Thomas Aquinas analyzes and interprets Aristotle’s writings, integrating them with Christian thought.
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D.
Plato
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, whose dialogues and ideas laid the foundations of Western philosophy.
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E.
Plato's Republic
Plato's Republic is a foundational philosophical dialogue in which Plato explores justice, the ideal state, and the nature of reality through Socratic conversations.
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Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek texts
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philosophical corpus ⓘ |
| associatedInstitution |
Lyceum of Aristotle
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surface form:
Lyceum in Athens
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| author | Aristotle ⓘ |
| canonicalDivision |
ethical works
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logical works ⓘ metaphysical works ⓘ physical works ⓘ poetical works ⓘ political works ⓘ rhetorical works ⓘ |
| containsWork |
Categories
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Eudemian Ethics ⓘ Generation of Animals ⓘ History of Animals ⓘ Magna Moralia ⓘ Metaphysics ⓘ Meteorology (by Aristotle) ⓘ
surface form:
Meteorology
Movement of Animals ⓘ Nicomachean Ethics ⓘ De Generatione et Corruptione ⓘ
surface form:
On Generation and Corruption
On Interpretation ⓘ Aristotle’s On the Heavens ⓘ
surface form:
On the Heavens
On the Soul ⓘ Organon ⓘ Parts of Animals ⓘ Parva Naturalia ⓘ Physics ⓘ Poetics ⓘ Politics ⓘ Posterior Analytics ⓘ Prior Analytics ⓘ Progression of Animals ⓘ Rhetoric ⓘ Sophistical Refutations ⓘ Topics ⓘ |
| dateRange | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| era | Classical Greek philosophy ⓘ |
| field |
biology
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epistemology ⓘ ethics ⓘ logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ natural philosophy ⓘ philosophy ⓘ poetics ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ psychology ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christian theology
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Islamic philosophy ⓘ Western philosophy ⓘ medieval scholasticism ⓘ natural science ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| originalForm | lecture notes and treatises ⓘ |
| partOf | Corpus Aristotelicum ⓘ |
| preservation | largely through medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ |
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