180 GREEK PHILOSOPHY. 



and this will account for some of those passages which he considers to 

 be interpolations by him. 



XXXI. The Great Ethics, (i. II.) (fjQiKa jueyaXa.) 



XXXII. The Eudemian Ethics, (i. n. in. iv, v. vi. vn.) (fiOwa 



This work was in ancient times attributed to Theophrastus or 

 Eudemus. The third and three following books agree considerably, 

 both in subject and style, with the fifth, sixth, and seventh of the 



* Nicomachean Ethics.' Some of this agreement may be artificial, and 

 arise from the transcribers interpolating the one work from the other. 

 But it seems highly probable that both this treatise and the ' Great 

 Ethics/ are books made up from the notes of Aristotle's scholars. 

 They, particularly the last named, which, contrary to what its name 

 would lead us to expect, is by far the shortest, seem to stand in very 

 much the same relation to the 'Nicomachean,' as the little book 



* Anweisung zur Menschen-und-Weltkenntniss ' (which was published 

 by a scholar of Kant's from notes of a course of lectures delivered by 

 him) does to the work ' Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht,' 

 which the philosopher himself published. 



XXXIII. On Virtues and Vices, (-rrepl aperuv ical KCLKIWV.) 



A spurious fragment, preserved by Stobaeus. The author is by 

 some scholars supposed to be Andronicus of Rhodes ; but others 

 think it should rather be attributed to a platonizing eclectic of later 

 times. 



XXXIV. Politics, (i ..... vin.) (iroXiTiKa.) 



Of this work we have given our opinion in an earlier part of the 

 article (p. 107). 



XXXV. Economics, (i. II.) (oZKovojuuca.) 



Of Aristotle's work bearing this name, Diogenes Laertius only 

 mentions one book ; and of these it seems quite evident that both 

 are not by the same author. Erasmus held the first to be 

 Aristotle's, but to be only a fragment ; but Niebuhr considers that 

 lately-discovered authorities prove it incontestably to be by Theo- 

 phrastus. 



If the second book is Aristotle's, it is probably a collection made 

 by him when collecting materials for his historical and philosophical 

 writings on government. It is chiefly a string of instances of oppres- 

 sion exercised by one people upon another, or by tyrants upon their 

 subjects. 



XXXVI. The Art of Rhetoric, (i. II. III.) (ri-^vi] pr i ropiKi'i.') 

 Besides these books, which contain his exposition of the art, 



Aristotle wrote one other which contained a history of it and of its 

 professors from the earliest times to his own. Of this Cicero speaks 1 

 in the highest terms, but it is unfortunately lost. The division into 

 three books is ingeniously conjectured by Stahr 2 to be due to Andro- 



1 De Invent, ii. 2. Compare De Orat. ii. 38. 



2 Aristoteles bei den Roemern, p. 30. 



