Categories

3 hrs. 12 min.

Language Russian

Author Aristotle

Narrator Igor Gmyza

Description

One of the very first and most important works by the philosopher that became the foundation for the development of all Western science and logic!

Aristotle (384–322 BC) is one of the greatest thinkers of Antiquity, a student of Plato and the tutor of Alexander the Great. Founder of the Peripatetic school, originator of formal logic, a natural scientist who significantly influenced the development of all Western European philosophy and science.

The first treatise in Aristotle’s famous “Organon,” a philosophical work devoted to logic, was “Categories”— one of the earliest works of the philosopher, where the first time 10 categories are singled out, using which we learn and describe the surrounding reality. This work served as a foundation for research into logic throughout the entire history of Western philosophy.

The collection also includes “Introduction” by Porphyry, an ancient Neo-Platonist philosopher who clarifies all the main concepts of the theory of logic in “Categories,” as well as Aristotle’s logical treatise “On Interpretation.”