Pseudo-Aristotle

Pseudo- Aristotle is the name for the open group of the authors of those writings that were attributed in antiquity or the Middle Ages Aristotle, but were later proven by research as spurious.

Since Aristotle was one of the best-known authors and as he had spoken on almost all the time scientifically researched topics, it might be considered plausible that he had written more fonts than the generally known. Therefore, a plurality of him was not authentic works attributed ( pseudepigraphy ), which gave these writings attention and authority. In this pseudo- Aristotelian works partial views were represented, which differed greatly from those of Aristotle. This causes the image of the personality and teaching of Aristotle was falsified for posterity.

The pseudo- Aristotelian works include:

  • Possibly the font, the Constitution of Athens, since the authenticity is disputed.
  • The Oikonomika ( "On the Utility " )
  • The Problemata physica ( " natural problems "), a collection of some 890 problems from many fields of knowledge. This work had the medieval and humanist translations into Latin a strong aftereffect.
  • The Liber de causis
  • The natural-philosophical treatise De mundo ( "On the World")
  • De pomo ( " About the Apple" )
  • De coloribus ( " About the colors " )
  • De lapidibus ( "On the rocks " )
  • Physiognomonica, a composite of two parts of different backgrounds work on physiognomy
  • De plantis ( "On the Plant "), a writing whose original version was from the Peripatetic Nicholas of Damascus. She was into Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin translated.
  • De virtute ( "On Virtue " ), also known as De virtutibus ( "On the Virtues " ) or De virtutibus et vitiis ( "On the virtues and the vices ").
  • Secretum secretorum ( " Secret of Secrets " ), a collection of advice that Aristotle allegedly gave Alexander the Great. Translations of this work achieved an exceptionally strong aftereffect in both the Arabic -speaking world as well as in the Latin -speaking scholarly world of the Middle Ages.
  • The Rhetorica ad Alexandrum ( "Rhetoric to Alexander " ), a textbook of rhetorical technique
  • The Theology of Aristotle, a font that ideas of the Neoplatonist Plotinus reflect collectively
  • The Divisiones ( " divisions ", Greek dihaireseis ), a collection of material about parent and child terms.
  • De Melisso Xenophane Gorgias (abbreviated De MXG or MXG )
Classical antiquity Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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