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title: Aristotle (384-322)
description: Aristotle (384-322). The classification of Andronicus of Rhodes.
  Physical Treatises:. Treatises of “metaphysics”:. Ethical treatises:. The high
  school, the Aristotle project.
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<h2 id="aristotle-384-322">Aristotle (384-322)</h2>

Unlike the work of **Plato**, his so-called “exoteric” works, addressed to the general public, have been lost and only a few fragments remain. Instead, we have bequeathed the “esoteric” works that he developed for his courses, doors inside the Lyceum.

Andronicus of Rhodes, around 60 B.C. made a compilation of Aristotle&#39;s works. The work of organizing the work led to the assumption that Aristotle had been a systematic thinker who developed a definite thought from the first works. In this way, it is counterbalanced with Plato, whose work shows a permanent evolutionary process. It was only in the 20th century that W Jaeger demonstrated that this had not been the case and that, on the contrary, Aristotle&#39;s thought was also the product of an evolutionary process. Like Plato, Aristotle was a permanent seeker and always open to reviewing his own ideas.

<h2 id="the-classification-of-andronicus-of-rhodes">The classification of Andronicus of Rhodes</h2>

**Logical Treatises:**

Categories, About Interpretation, Analytical, Topical, Ssophistic Refutations.

<h3 id="physical-treatises">Physical Treatises:</h3>

Physics (eight treatises), About Heaven, About Generation and Corruption, Meterological, About Soul, History of Animals, About Parts of Animals.

<h3 id="metaphysics-treatises">“Metaphysics” treatises:</h3>

Catroce treatises on the “first philosphophy” and that Andronicus decided to place behind the physicists (hence his name): meta ta physika

<h3 id="ethical-treatios">Ethical Treatios:</h3>

Ethics to Eudemo, Ethics to Nicomaco, Great morale and Politics.

**Rhetoric and Poetics** (incomplete)

<h2 id="the-lyceum-the-aristotle-project">The Lyceum, the Aristotle Project</h2>

Unlike Plato, whose work had a clear moral and political intent, Aristotle&#39;s project has a scientific objective. These motivations were theoretical:

1.  Adjusting the deficiencies in the Platonic theory of Ideas: Aristotle may have sought to perfect Platonism definitively (as opposed to the mathematical versions of Eupeusipus and Jenocrates).
    
2.  Develop a method: continuing the tradition of the Jonian philosophers, interest is focused on the empirical.