Aristotle

As Sellars says in this delightful little book, we should all aspire to know at least something about Aristotle’s ideas and how they have shaped the way we think. I know he lived over two thousand years ago, but given just how much the greatest philosopher in history has influenced almost every aspect of human thought to this day, I fully agree. And this book does that job admirably. – Jim Al-KhaliliAristotle: Understanding the World’s Greatest Philosopher is the latest book by John Sellars, who excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. For those of us not yet brave enough to embark on the Nicomachean Ethics, this 144-page book is a great way into one of the greatest philosophers of all time – Nigel Warburton * Five Books Best of 2023 *Everyone should desire to know about Aristotle because his philosophy is a crucial foundation for ethics, science, logic, politics and aesthetics in the western tradition. This short book is a brilliantly clear introduction to the whole range of his thought. – Robert Eaglestone, author of Truth and Wonder: a Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle

John Sellars is a Reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London and a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. He is the author of Lessons in Stoicism and The Fourfold Remedy. His books have been translated into over a dozen languages.