Teaching Aristotle
The historical Aristotle was a teacher as well as a philosopher. He tutored students individually and also at a school that he established in Athens called the Lyceum. Many of his surviving philosophical works are understood to be versions of lecture notes from his students or texts that were developed within the context of teaching. Because of their encyclopedic range and systematic style, starting in the Middle Ages, Aristotelian texts were the backbone of school and university curricula across the Middle East and Europe. Within natural philosophy (what we might call science), the Aristotelian framework wasn't displaced until the 17th century, though it persisted even longer. Still today, works by Aristotle are widely taught and studied. The items in this collection highlight students engaging with Aristotle, either by learning from the teacher directly or through the time-honored tradition of working with his texts.
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Uploaded UploadedXO10 Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 1442. August 12th, 1756
UploadedXO06 Analysis librorum Physicorum Aristotelis
UploadedXO08 In politica, hoc est, In ciuiles libros Aristotelis … progymnasmata: cum indice locupletissimo
UploadedXO07 Summi philosopho[rum] principis Aristotelis libri tres De historia anime foeliciter incipiunt
UploadedXO09 Epitomata que vulgo Reparationes dicu[n]tur lectionum et exercicoru[m] logice veteris ac noue Arestotelis [secundu]m diui Alberti doctoris magni doctrina[m] ad profectu[m] quoru[m]uis philosophie agonie palestritaru[m]: veru[m] presertim in gymnasio Coloniensi q[uod] Laurentij voca[n]t [pro] ingenij sui cultu desuda[n]tiu[m] feliciter incipient
UploadedXO11 Questiones super octo libros Phisicorum Aristotelis; necnon super libros De celo et mundo
UploadedXO12 Copulata pulcherrima diuersis ex autoribus logice in vnu[m] corrogata in vetere[m] artem Aresto. cu[m] textu eiusde[m] s[e]c[un]d[u]m via[m] diui doctoris Thome de Aquino & iuxta processu[m] m[a]g[ist]ro[rum] Colonie in bursa Montis rege[n]tiu[m]
UploadedXO13 Textus triu[m] libroru[m] de anima Aristotelis cu[m] co[m]me[n]tario secu[n]dum doctrina[m] venerabilis domini Alberti Magni
UploadedXO68 Metaphisica, De anima, & Meteorologia
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