• cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Aristotle wrote a lot

    He did, but none of those writings survived to make it to us. All of his extant “works” are in fact lecture notes taken by his students. The Penguin translation of Nicomachean Ethics for example is beautifully done in a way that makes that very evident.