Books A - E: The first theoretical systematic approach to dialectics. How one can dialectically arrive at possible positions on every issue without contradicting oneself while substantiating those positions. The art of logical argumentation.

Aristotle, son of the physician Nicomachus, was born in Stagira in 384 B.C. Information about his early years is scarce. At the age of seventeen, he went to Athens to study at the Platonic Academy. He stayed there for twenty years, from 367 to 348 B.C., when Plato died. Then Aristotle left for Assos in Troas, and after a three-year stay there, he went to Lesbos and subsequently to Macedonia, where he undertook the education of the royal child Alexander.

When his student ascended the throne, Aristotle settled in Athens and founded his school, the Lyceum. After Alexander's death (323 B.C.), the philosopher's stay in Athens became difficult. He was forced to flee to Chalcis, his mother's homeland, where he died in 322.

A universal spirit, Aristotle created a vast and valuable body of philosophical and scientific work. Epistemology, logic, theology, physics, biology, psychology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics are the main fields of knowledge he explored and studied. The Alexandrian Hermippus counted Aristotle's works at 400. To this day, lists have survived that include 143 titles of his works. Diogenes Laertius estimated the number of verses in Aristotle's writings to be 440,000.

The impact of his work on the formation of global thought has been, for centuries, and remains, strong.