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Anonymous 7/20/2025, 2:57:53 PM No.24567066 [Report] >>24567077 >>24567426 >>24567560 >>24568618 >>24568847 >>24568909 >>24570853 >>24570915 >>24571844 >>24571859
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In order, which 5 books of Aristotle should I start off reading?
Anonymous 7/20/2025, 3:06:27 PM No.24567077 [Report] >>24567435
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>>24567066 (OP)
You should read the Republic instead of wasting your time with Aristotle
Anonymous 7/20/2025, 3:47:50 PM No.24567152 [Report]
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 [Report] >>24567189 >>24567553
the actual 5 books of the organon
categories, on interpretation, prior analytics, posterior analytics, and topics. in that order.
Anonymous 7/20/2025, 4:08:24 PM No.24567189 [Report] >>24567675
>>24567178
What translation?
Anonymous 7/20/2025, 6:14:33 PM No.24567426 [Report]
>>24567066 (OP)
I don't know. Thanks for asking.
Anonymous 7/20/2025, 6:18:04 PM No.24567435 [Report]
>>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 [Report] >>24567675
>>24567178
What about Sophistical Refutations?
Anonymous 7/20/2025, 7:23:11 PM No.24567560 [Report] >>24567697
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>>24567066 (OP)
Anonymous 7/20/2025, 8:32:52 PM No.24567675 [Report]
>>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 [Report]
Ethics
Poetics
Physics maybe?
I don‘t know
Anonymous 7/20/2025, 8:41:25 PM No.24567697 [Report]
>>24567560
Jesus Jesus Thank You
Anonymous 7/20/2025, 9:44:50 PM No.24567863 [Report]
I'm really not sure
Anonymous 7/21/2025, 3:20:41 AM No.24568584 [Report]
good question
Anonymous 7/21/2025, 3:40:21 AM No.24568618 [Report]
>>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 [Report]
>>24567066 (OP)
Nicomachean ethics
Politics
Rhetorics
On Sophictical Refutations
Prior analytics
Anonymous 7/21/2025, 5:40:29 AM No.24568854 [Report] >>24568888
OP here, I decided to start with the Metaphysics.
Anonymous 7/21/2025, 6:02:22 AM No.24568888 [Report]
>>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 [Report] >>24568918
>>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
Anonymous 7/21/2025, 6:19:50 AM No.24568918 [Report] >>24568943
>>24568909
Any writings in particular? Like the commentaries on Aristotle?
Anonymous 7/21/2025, 6:33:33 AM No.24568943 [Report] >>24571683
>>24568918
Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide should be a good start
Anonymous 7/21/2025, 10:39:30 PM No.24570853 [Report]
>>24567066 (OP)
id reccomend Ethics to start off desu
Anonymous 7/21/2025, 10:53:06 PM No.24570881 [Report]
That’s a difficult question.
Anonymous 7/21/2025, 11:08:38 PM No.24570915 [Report]
>>24567066 (OP)
I don’t know, but I like this thread and felt I should post here
Anonymous 7/22/2025, 4:59:41 AM No.24571683 [Report]
>>24568943
Oh, if you mean the Edward Feser book, I've read that before.
Anonymous 7/22/2025, 6:23:43 AM No.24571844 [Report]
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>>24567066 (OP)
Anonymous 7/22/2025, 6:46:12 AM No.24571859 [Report]
>>24567066 (OP)
It's really just Ethics, and then four other things.