On Aristotle

In On Aristotle, Alan Ryan examines Platos most famous student and sharpest critic. Aristotle was the first thinker to posit that a society should be ruled by laws and not men. His strongly empirical cast of mind was brought to bear on a stunning range of subjects and the resulting system dominated European thought from the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries. Aristotles meticulous thinking on the nature of human affairs, ethics, politics, citizenship and virtue in a civil society remains as vital today as it was in his own time. Including key sections from Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, Aristotles only surviving works, with a new introduction by Alan Ryan and a chronology of the philosophers life and works, On Aristotle contextualises Aristotles views of government and the political community within the Ancient World.