The Complete Works of Aristotle contains the following treatises: On Logic Categories On Interpretation Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics On Sophistical Refutation Topics On Nature On Divination On Dreams On the Gait of Animals On Generation and Corruption On the Generation of Animals On the Heavens The History of Animals On Longevity and Shortness of Life Memory and Reminiscence Meteorology On the Motion of Animals Parts of Animals Physics On Sense and the Sensible On Sleep and Walking On Youth and Old Age Philosophy Eudemian Ethics Nicomachean Ethics Metaphysics On the Soul Politics Athenian Constitution Politics Rhetoric Rhetoric Poetics Aristotle (384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalcidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At seventeen or eighteen years of age, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. Teaching Alexander the Great gave Aristotle many opportunities and an abundance of supplies. He established a library in the Lyceum which aided in the production of many of his hundreds of books. The fact that Aristotle was a pupil of Plato contributed to his former views of Platonism, but, following Plato's death, Aristotle immersed himself in empirical studies and shifted from Platonism to empiricism. He believed all peoples' concepts and all of their knowledge was ultim