The earliest surviving work of dramatic theory. Defines tragedy, introduces catharsis, and argues that poetry is more philosophical than history.
Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete, and possesses magnitude; in language made pleasurable; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish the catharsis of such emotions.
Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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Aristotle's most important work on ethics. Argues that happiness (eudaimonia) is the highest good, achievable through a life of virtue and the cultivation of practical wisdom.
A systematic study of the state, citizenship, and constitutions. Famous for declaring that humans are by nature political animals.
A collection of treatises on first philosophy: the study of being as being, substance, causation, and the unmoved mover.