(c) Of Creative works we have only the fragmentary ‘Poetics.’  To these may be added a few poems, one of which is given here.

Besides the extant works of Aristotle, we have titles, fragments, and some knowledge of the contents of a large number more.  Among these are the whole of the “exoteric” works, including nineteen Dialogues.  A list of his works, as arranged in the Alexandrian Library (apparently), is given by Diogenes Laertius in his ‘Life of Aristotle’ (printed in the Berlin and Paris editions of ’Aristotle’); a list in which it is not easy to identify the whole of the extant works.  The ‘Fragments’ appear in both the editions just named.  Some of the works named above are almost certainly spurious; e.g., the ‘Rhetoric to Alexander,’ the ‘Oeconomics,’ etc.

The chief editions of Aristotle’s works, exclusive of the ’Constitution of Athens,’ are that of the Berlin Academy (Im.  Bekker), containing text, scholia, Latin translation, and Index in Greek (5 vols., square 4to); and the Paris or Didot (Duebner, Bussemaker, Heitz), containing text, Latin translation, and very complete Index in Latin (5 vols., 4to).  Of the chief works the best editions are:—­’Organon,’ Waitz; ‘Metaphysics,’ Schwegler, Bonitz; ‘Physics,’ Prantl; ‘Meteorologies,’ Ideler; ‘On the Generation of Animals,’ Aubert and Wimmer; ‘Psychology,’ Trendelenburg, Torstrik, Wallace (with English translation); ‘Nicomachean Ethics,’ Grant, Ramsauer, Susemihl; ‘Politics,’ Stahr, Susemihl; ‘Constitution of Athens,’ Kenyon, Sandys; ‘Poetics,’ Susemihl, Vahlen, Butcher (with English translation).  There are few good English translations of Aristotle’s works; but among these may be mentioned Peter’s ‘Nicomachean Ethics,’ Jowett’s and Welldon’s ‘Politics,’ and Poste’s ‘Constitution of Athens.’  There is a fair French translation of the principal works by Barthelemy St.-Hilaire.  The Berlin Academy is now (1896) publishing the ancient Greek commentaries on Aristotle in thirty-five quarto volumes.  The best work on Aristotle is that by E. Zeller, in Vol. iii. of his ‘Philosophie der Griechen.’  The English works by Lewes and Grote are inferior.  For Bibliography, the student may consult Ueberweg, ‘Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophic,’ Vol. i., pages 196 seq.

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THE NATURE OF THE SOUL

From ‘On the Soul,’ Book iii., Chapter 6

Concerning that part of the soul, however, by which the soul knows (and is prudentially wise) whether it is separable or not separable, according to magnitude, but according to reason, it must be considered what difference it possesses, and how intellectual perception is produced.  If, therefore, to perceive intellectually is the same thing as to perceive sensibly, it will either be to suffer something from the intelligible, or something else of this kind.  It is necessary,