Thread #24567066 - /lit/

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Anonymous

7/20/2025, 2:57:53 PM No.24567066

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In order, which 5 books of Aristotle should I start off reading?

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Anonymous

7/20/2025, 3:06:27 PM No.24567077

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>>24567066 (OP)
You should read the Republic instead of wasting your time with Aristotle

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Anonymous

7/20/2025, 3:47:50 PM No.24567152

idk bro. never read aristotle. thanks for asking, though. my opinion is very important to me.

Anonymous

7/20/2025, 4:04:29 PM No.24567178

the actual 5 books of the organon
categories, on interpretation, prior analytics, posterior analytics, and topics. in that order.

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Anonymous

7/20/2025, 4:08:24 PM No.24567189

>>24567178
What translation?

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Anonymous

7/20/2025, 6:14:33 PM No.24567426

>>24567066 (OP)
I don't know. Thanks for asking.

Anonymous

7/20/2025, 6:18:04 PM No.24567435

>>24567077
Why are you suggesting reading the Republic when you only read AI summaries of it?

Anonymous

7/20/2025, 7:17:44 PM No.24567553

>>24567178
What about Sophistical Refutations?

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Anonymous

7/20/2025, 7:23:11 PM No.24567560

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>>24567066 (OP)

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Anonymous

7/20/2025, 8:32:52 PM No.24567675

>>24567189
Any you could get a hand on. There's decent translations on MIT's classics archive: https://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aristotle.html

>>24567553
This too.

Anonymous

7/20/2025, 8:39:34 PM No.24567691

Ethics
Poetics
Physics maybe?
I don‘t know

Anonymous

7/20/2025, 8:41:25 PM No.24567697

>>24567560
Jesus Jesus Thank You

Anonymous

7/20/2025, 9:44:50 PM No.24567863

I'm really not sure

Anonymous

7/21/2025, 3:20:41 AM No.24568584

good question

Anonymous

7/21/2025, 3:40:21 AM No.24568618

>>24567066 (OP)
Read a good survey of Aristotle's work before you dive into his actual books. Aristotle's "books" are actually just really dry lecture notes that are not particularly fun to read. You should still read them since he was right about everything, but you will get more out of them if you (critically) read the secondary literature alongside them.

Anonymous

7/21/2025, 5:36:28 AM No.24568847

>>24567066 (OP)
Nicomachean ethics
Politics
Rhetorics
On Sophictical Refutations
Prior analytics

Anonymous

7/21/2025, 5:40:29 AM No.24568854

OP here, I decided to start with the Metaphysics.

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Anonymous

7/21/2025, 6:02:22 AM No.24568888

>>24568854
I think you made the right choice. Or maybe not. Never read him though.

Anonymous

7/21/2025, 6:15:35 AM No.24568909

>>24567066 (OP)
Reading scholastic works like that of Aquinas (or even Descartes) was actually the better way to get into Aristotle for me, as his actual writings are rather dry and not very organized like that other anon said

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Anonymous

7/21/2025, 6:19:50 AM No.24568918

>>24568909
Any writings in particular? Like the commentaries on Aristotle?

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Anonymous

7/21/2025, 6:33:33 AM No.24568943

>>24568918
Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide should be a good start

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Anonymous

7/21/2025, 10:39:30 PM No.24570853

>>24567066 (OP)
id reccomend Ethics to start off desu