Aristotle Author:W.D. Ross W.D. Ross's "Aristotle" is an unsurpassed example of scholarship--thorough without being overwhelming, accurate without being picayune, comprehensive without being pretentious. These virtues are particuarly to be appreciated in a book about the most influential, complex, and rigorous philosopher of the ancient world, the creator of an enormous ... more »philosophic literature. In order to best expose the inner development and structure of Aristotle's thought, W.D. Ross examines his writings as they develop through the theories of logic, physics, biology, psychology, and metaphysics (these disciplines constituting the realm of theoretical sciences) and the doctrines of ethics, politics, rhetoric, and poetics (the practical sciences). The general reader and student of philosophy and classical literature can ill-afford not to be familiar with this brilliant exposition of the life and works of Aristotle.« less