The Complete Works of Aristotle. Illustrated
Aristotle’s works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and even today continue to be studied with keen interest.Aristotle left a great body of work, perhaps numbering as many as two-hundred treatises, from which approximately thirty-one survive.His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology and government.Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the first Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition. LOGICCategoriesOn InterpretationPrior AnalyticsPosterior AnalyticsTopicsSophistical Refutations PHYSICSPhysicsOn the HeavensOn Generation and CorruptionMeteorologyOn the UniverseOn the SoulThe Parva NaturaliaOn BreathHistory of AnimalsParts of AnimalsMovement of AnimalsProgression of AnimalsGeneration of AnimalsOn ColoursOn Things HeardPhysiognomonicsOn PlantsOn Marvelous Things HeardMechanicsProblemsOn Indivisible LinesThe Situations and Names of WindsOn Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias METAPHYSICSMetaphysics ETHICS AND POLITICSNicomachean EthicsGreat EthicsNicomachean EthicsGreat EthicsEudemian EthicsOn Virtues and VicesPoliticsEconomics RHETORIC AND POETICSRhetoricRhetoric to AlexanderPoeticsConstitution of the Athenians
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Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what he said than about what he meant; not to consider the actions of the accused so much as his intentions, nor this or that detail so much as the whole story; to ask not what a man is now but what he has always or usually been. It bids us remember benefits rather than injuries, and benefits received rather than benefits conferred; to be patient when we are wronged; to settle a dispute by negotiation and not by force; to prefer arbitration to motion-for an arbitrator goes by the equity of a case, a judge by the strict law, and arbitration was invented with the express purpose of securing full power for equity.
For all men guard against ordinary offences, just as they guard against ordinary diseases; but no one takes precautions against a disease that nobody has ever had