The Metaphysics
350 BC · 459 pages
Aristotle asks what a thing most fundamentally is, and the answer runs through matter, form, and cause to a god who moves the whole world simply by being loved.
★ 7.6
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The Nicomachean Ethics
350 BC · 329 pages
Everyone wants to be happy. Aristotle's answer is that happiness is not a feeling but a life of acting well, and that you become brave only by doing brave things.
★ 7.6
The Art of Rhetoric
350 BC · 291 pages
Persuasion runs on three things, Aristotle found: the speaker's character, the listener's emotions, and the argument. He shows how to make an audience angry or ashamed, and you notice the machinery everywhere afterward.
★ 7.5