Various Groupings of Aristotle's Writings
Compiled by Clifton D. Healy
© 2000 Clifton D. Healy
(The materials organized below are derived from the sources indicated.
Any errors expressed are solely my own.)
| Aristotelian Authorship | Disputed Aristotelian Authorship | Spurious |
| Categories | Problems | On the Universe |
| De Interpretatione | Magna Moralia | On Breath |
| Prior Analytics | Economics | On Colors |
| Posterior Analytics | On Things Heard | |
| Topics | Physiognomonics | |
| Sophisticated Refutations | On Plants | |
| Physics | On Marvelous Things Heard | |
| On the Heavens | Mechanics | |
| On Generation and Corruption | On Indivisible Lines | |
| Meteorology | The Situations and Names of Winds | |
| On the Soul | On Melissus, Xenophanes, and Gorgias | |
| Sense and Sensibilia | On Virtues and Vices | |
| On Memory | Rhetoric to Alexander | |
| On Sleep | ||
| On Dreams | ||
| On Divination in Sleep | ||
| On Length and Shortness of Life | ||
| On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death and Respiration | ||
| History of Animals | ||
| Parts of Animals | ||
| Movement of Animals | ||
| Progression of Animals | ||
| Generation of Animals | ||
| Metaphysics | ||
| Nichomachean Ethics | ||
| Eudemian Ethics | ||
| Politics | ||
| Rhetoric | ||
| Poetics | ||
| Constitution of Athens | ||
| Fragments |
Note: These are the views derived from introductory material by Jonathon
Barnes in The Complete Works of Aristotle, 2 vols, Princeton, 1984.
Groupings of Aristotle's Works
| The Organon | Natural Philosophy | Psychology | Parva Naturalia | Zoological Works | Metaphysics | Ethics | Politics and Economics | Rhetoric and Poetics | Other |
| Categories | Physics | On the Soul | Sense and Sensibilia | History of Animals | Metaphysics | Nichomachean Ethics | Politics | Rhetoric | Fragments |
| De
Interpreta- tione |
On the Heavens | On Memory | Parts of Animals | Magna Moralia | Economics | Rhetoric to Alexander | On Breath | ||
| Prior Analytics | On Generation and Corruption | On Sleep | Movement of Animals | Eudemian Ethics | Constitution of Athens | Poetics | On Colours | ||
| Posterior Analytics | Meteorology | On Dreams | Progression of Animals | On Virtues and Vices | On Things Heard | ||||
| Topics | On the Universe | On Divination in Sleep | Generation of Animals | Physiog-
nomics |
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| Sophistical Refutations | On Length and Shortness of Life | On Plants | |||||||
| On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration | On Marvelous Things Heard | ||||||||
| Mechanics | |||||||||
| Problems | |||||||||
| On Indivisible Lines | |||||||||
| The Situations and Names of the Winds | |||||||||
| On Melissus, Xeno-
phanes, and Gorgias |
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