Aristotle Reading List

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy - Mortimer J. Adler ia800700.us.archive.org/6/items/AristotleForEverybodyDifficultThoughtMadeEasyMortimerJAdler/Aristotle%20for%20Everybody,%20Difficult%20Thought%20Made%20Easy%20-%20Mortimer%20J%20Adler.pdf

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1) Socrates in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern 2) Plato in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern 3) Aristotle in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern 4) Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy - Mortimer J. Adler 5) Philosophy 101 by Socrates: An Introduction to Philosophy via Plato's Apology - Peter Kreeft 6) Aristotle: A Guide for the Perplexed - John Vella 7) Aristotle The Philosopher - J. L. Ackrill 8) Aristotle - Sir David Ross 9) Aristotle - Christopher Shields 10) Aristotle: His Life and School - Carlo Natali 11) The Complete Works of Aristotle - Jonathan Barnes 12) New translation of individual works The New Hackett Aristotle - C. D. C. Reeve 13) The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle - Jonathan Barnes 14) The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle - Christopher Shields 15) Aristotle Dictionary - Thomas P. Kiernan

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

Thank you!

[@nn-kk4du]

Thank you professor, I can’t thank you enough when you post a reading list for your subscribers

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

You are most welcome. Thank you for watching.

[@sheharyarjillani]

JazakAllah Pls make one for Mulla Sadra and other Fālasifa, as well

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

I will add it to the list.

[@sheharyarjillani]

@@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad JazakAllah

[@matsuda1994]

Looking forward to your De Anima seminars!

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

Will be uploading first one today July5, 2023.

[@kurtcocain86]

Once again, dropping bombs of wisdom, I believe it was my interest in Julius Evola that led me to your channel...Trad chad for the win! Thank you, and now I will embark on a hunt for some of these books.

[@fifatrickster51]

Your video and sound quality is getting better! keep it up

[@bruta1ny]

Thank you!!! I would love to see Plato reading list in this format

[@BrettThomasOakleyMerritt]

Dante placed Aristotle in the first circle of Hell (Limbo) with all the virtuous "non-believers". This circle isn't Hell proper in the comedy. The first circle of hell in Dante, where sins are punished, is the second circle, where lust is punished. Homer, Horace, Lucan, Ovid, Electra, Hector, Aeneas, Caesar, Saladdin, Socrates, Plato, Democritus, Diogenes, Anaxagoras, Thales, Empedocles, Heraclitus, Zeno, Dioscorides, Orpheus, Tullius, Linus, Seneca, Euclid, Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Galen, Averroes and especially Virgil who guides him through Hell (Inferno) and most of the Purgatory are also in Limbo. He calls Aristotle the master of those.

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

Thanks for the clarification.

[@pseudoplotinus]

That is really fascinating

[@mujq7879]

How hard is the Cambridge companion to read for a newcomer to philosopher (high schooler self learning)

[@mohamedabdulle3719]

Salam how does one go about joining your reading group?

[@qsmats8744]

professor, would you ever do a video series or lecture series about general islamic philosophy? I think this would be really great. thank you so much for the work you do.

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

Sure. I will add it to the list of future videos.

[@Cremastercycles]

Thank you !

[@broiled6935]

great video as always

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

Thank you.

[@omermushtaq2006]

Eid Mubarak!❤

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

Eid mubarak to you too.

[@Prandopa]

Helpful as always. Just a question: don't you think secondary sources distort philosophers' ideas? You said you found these books helpful in your own intellectual journey and recommend them to your students, so I'm assuming you don't think that, at least these specific books, distorted Aristotle. But a response would further clarify your view on secondary sources for philosophy in general. Thanks

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

I recommend reading the original works of Aristotle. Of course, this would mean a mastery of Greek. However, in the case of Aristotle there are many translations and commentaries that I do think are accurate.

[@Prandopa]

@@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad Thanks a lot. Just to make sure we both understood each other; so you’re saying it’s a good idea to read Aristotle himself (English translations) and the Oxford/Cambridge commentaries and Companions/Handbooks as guides to understand Aristotle better, or should one read ONLY Aristotle himself (English translations) and try to understand him without the help of these Companions/Handbooks?

[@arma.7798]

Hello I was wondering if you could introduce some books of Aristotle in persian, or arabic. Tnx for the reading list though; it was awesome

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the translations in modern times of Aristotle into those languages.

[@fifatrickster51]

can you make an ibn arabi or mulla sadra reading list?

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

I will add it to the list.

[@al_Hasaan]

Please, do make a video on Plato.

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

In shāʾ Allāh.

[@johannesmustermann1123]

Doctor Ahmad, you forgot to talk about thomistic commentaries on Aristotle!

[@pseudoplotinus]

I think these were books pertaining to Aristotle himself and his thought. Thomism is almost a whole other domain, or addition to that.

[@SaiyadNizamuddinAhmad]

Correct. In my De Anima reading list video, I do talk about commentaries including those of Thomas Aquinas.