Audiobooks by Aristotle

The Gift of Friendship: What the Wisest Minds Said About Our Deepest Bonds Across Two Thousand Years

"This beautifully curated anthology draws on major historical figures including Emerson, Thoreau, Carlyle, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Francis Bacon, Montaigne, and Aristotle. The pieces range across themes such as the sentiment of friendship, its pleasures, and the art of choosing friends well — together forming a rich portrait of what the wisest minds across two millennia considered one of life's most essential bonds. The voices are varied in tone, era, and temperament, but united in their love and respect for friendship, the greatest of relationships. From Aristotle's philosophical precision to Emerson's idealism, Thoreau's observations and the polish of Addison and Steele., what unites them all is a shared conviction that friendship is not incidental to a good life but central to it — that to understand friendship is, in some measure, to understand what it means to be human. We find celebration of loyalty, of mutual recognition, of the rare pleasure of being truly known, alongside a frank acknowledgement of friendship's fragility, its demands, and its occasional disappointments. Together the selections build into something more than the sum of their parts: a sustained meditation on human connection that feels as pertinent today as when it was first compiled. A short but deeply rich book, it reminds us that what matters most never changes, and that a good friend is the greatest of all treasures."

Alfred H. Hyatt, Anthusa, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, George Berkeley, Henry Mackenzie, Henry David Thoreau, Joseph Addison, Michel de Montaigne, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Steele, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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The Categories

"'The Categories' by Aristotle is a philosophical text from ancient Greece that enumerates all possible kinds of things that can be the subject or predicate of a proposition. This foundational work divides everything in human experience into ten fundamental categories, distinguishing between what can be said 'of' versus 'in' a subject. Aristotle explores substances, quantities, qualities, and relations, providing a framework for understanding reality that influenced medieval philosophy and sparked centuries of debate about language, logic, and existence."

Aristotle (Author), Martin G Jewell (Narrator)

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

"The most precise and authoritative translation of one of the founding works of Western culture, in an edition supported by helpful, effective notes. The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence—found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called “the Philosopher.” Drawing on their intimate knowledge of Aristotle’s thought, Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins have produced here an English-language translation of the Ethics that is as remarkably faithful to the original as it is graceful in its rendering. Aristotle is well known for the precision with which he chooses his words, and in this elegant translation his work has found its ideal match. Bartlett and Collins provide copious notes and a glossary providing context and further explanation for students, as well as an introduction and a substantial interpretive essay that sketch central arguments of the work and the seminal place of Aristotle’s Ethics in his political philosophy as a whole. The Nicomachean Ethics has engaged the serious interest of readers across centuries and civilizations—of peoples ancient, medieval, and modern; pagan, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish—and this new edition will take its place as the standard English-language translation. This audiobook is expertly read and engineered by Peter Coates. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont."

Aristotle (Author), Peter Coates (Narrator)

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Poetics

Aristotle (Author), Digital Voice Martin G (Narrator)

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On Generation and Corruption

"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. OUR next task is to study coming-to-be and passing-away. We are to distinguish the causes, and to state the definitions, of these processes considered in general-as changes predicable uniformly of all the things that come-to-be and pass-away by nature. Further, we are to study growth and 'alteration.' We must inquire what each of them is; and whether 'alteration' is to be identified with coming-to-be, or whether to these different names there correspond two separate processes with distinct natures."

Aristotle (Author), Digital Voice Martin G (Narrator)

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On the Heavens

"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be. For of things constituted by nature, some are bodies and magnitudes, some possess body and magnitude, and some are principles of things which possess these. Now a continuum is that which is divisible into parts always capable of subdivision, and a body is that which is every way divisible."

Aristotle (Author), Digital Voice Martin G (Narrator)

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The Politics

"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good."

Aristotle (Author), Digital Voice Martin G (Narrator)

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The Essential Aristotle

"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato. He taught Alexander the Great, and wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance."

Aristotle (Author), Digital Voice Martin G (Narrator)

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Rhetoric

"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic. Both alike are concerned with such things that come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science. Accordingly all men make use, more or less, of both; for, to a certain extent, all men attempt to discuss statements and to maintain them, to defend themselves, and to attack others. Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit. Both ways being possible, the subject can plainly be handled systematically, for it is possible to inquire the reason why some speakers succeed through practice and others spontaneously; everyone will at once agree that such an inquiry is the function of an art."

Aristotle (Author), Digital Voice Martin G (Narrator)

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The Athenian Constitution

"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states; it is widely assumed that these were research for the Politics, and that many of them were written or drafted by his students. Athens, however, was a particularly important state, and where Aristotle was living at the time; it is plausible that, even if students did the others, Aristotle did that one himself, and possible that it was intended as a model for the rest. However, a number of prominent scholars doubt that it was written by Aristotle. If it is a genuine writing of Aristotle, then it is of particular significance because it is the only one of his extant writings that was actually intended for publication. Because it purports to supply us with so much contemporary information previously unknown or unreliable, modern historians have claimed that 'the discovery of this treatise constitutes almost a new epoch in Greek historical study.'"

Aristotle (Author), Digital Voice Martin G (Narrator)

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The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Nicomachean Ethics focuses on the importance of habitually behaving virtuously and developing a virtuous character. Aristotle emphasized the importance of context to ethical behavior, and the ability of the virtuous person to recognize the best course of action. Aristotle argued that happiness and well being is the goal of life, and that a person's pursuit of such, rightly conceived, will result in virtuous conduct. 'EVERY art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.' -Aristotle"

Aristotle (Author), Digital Voice Martin G (Narrator)

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Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: A New Translation for Today's Readers

"What does it mean to live a good life—and how can you achieve it? Aristotle’s timeless wisdom finally speaks to the modern world. In this translation of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle’s foundational work on ethics, happiness, and virtue is brought to life in fresh, accessible language designed for 21st-century listeners. Whether you’re a student of philosophy or simply seeking deeper meaning in your everyday decisions, this audiobook delivers powerful insights that resonate across generations. Explore Aristotle’s groundbreaking ideas on: ⦿ The true nature of happiness (eudaimonia) ⦿ The power of habit in shaping moral character ⦿ The importance of balance and moderation (the Golden Mean) ⦿ The roles of friendship, reason, and community in a fulfilling life This simple and modern translation makes Aristotle's profound ideas approachable without losing their original depth. Each chapter is narrated with clarity and purpose, making it easy to absorb and reflect on some of the most influential ethical thinking in history. Whether you're walking, commuting, or relaxing—take Aristotle with you and start redefining what it means to live well. Buy now and begin your journey toward a more thoughtful, intentional life."

Aristotle, Stanley J. Hanson (Author), Jude Wellington (Narrator)

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