forthcoming publications
Last updated November 2000
ARISTOTLE - COMPLETE WORKS in 10 volumes continuing with:
Vol II, The Organon (The Logical Treatises); Including The Isagoge of Porphyry; The Categories; Prior & Posterior Analytics; The Topics; Sophistical Elenchi; additional notes & commentaries of Ammonius & Simplicius.
Vol. III, The Magna Moralia (The Great Ethics) together with the Eudemian Ethics; the Politics; the Ecomomics.
Vol. IV The Rhetoric, also includes the Nichomachean Ethics and the Poetics.
Vol. V The Metaphysics includes the commentaries of Alexander of Aphrodiensis and Syrianus; Mechanical Problems; On the World; Against Xenophanes, Zeno and Gorgias; On Virtues and Vices; Fragments on Audibles.
Vol. VI De Anima - On the Soul (& commentary of Simplicius); Sense & Sensibles; Memory & Reminiscence; Sleep & Wakefulness; On Dreams; On Divination by Sleep; The Common Motion of Animals; On Generation of Animals; On the Length & Shortness of Life; On Youth & Old Age; Life and Death; On Respiration.
Vol. VII On the Heavens, On Generation & Corruption; On Meteors; includes the Commentary of Olympiodorus.
Vol. VIII The History of Animals, with the Treatise on Physiognomy.
Vol. IX Parts & Progressive Motions of Animals, with the Problems; On Indivisible Lines; and Taylor's treatise on the Arithmetic of Infinites.
Vol. X The Philosophy of Aristotle: Taylor's 600 page summary of Aristotle's philosophy.
The complete works of Aristotle will be published from autumn 2000 onwards, but the speed with which we can publish all ten volumes does depend on funding. Students of Platonic philosophy will, we think, find Taylor's Aristotle of great interest, since it puts these writings back within the Platonic tradition, rather than accepting the modern view that Aristotle wrote mainly against his teacher. Taylor's masterful 600 page dissertation On the Philosophy of Aristotle will be the tenth volume: it arranges the arguments of the later Platonists of the Athenian and Alexandrian Academies and shows how badly misunderstood Aristotle is in the present day. We think, too, that these ten volumes will, eventually, help heal the rift between science and religion which is one of the great problems facing our `scientific' age; this movement can be traced back, at least in part, to the early Christian era when the observational and materialistic elements of Aristotle were detached from their religious background, in order that the Christian theologians and philosophers could base their work on a recognised and systematic thinker.
It is also worth pointing out that when Taylor had completed his translation of Aristotle and virtually all the later Platonists commentaries on his writings he was only able to afford to print 50 copies of each volume! As a result, the influence of Taylor's heroic undertaking is nowhere near its just proportions: as his Aristotle has not been reprinted since its original short-run publication the Prometheus Trust's edition of these works will, we hope, find an eager readership amongst the genuine Platonists around the English-speaking world.
After the complete works of Aristotle we expect to reprint Taylor's translation of Pausanius' Guide to Greece, with its treasure-house of mythological, religious and mystical information.
The series will be completed with a collection of Taylor's Arithmetical Writings (to included his translation of Proclus on Euclid, his collection of Ancient Arguments Against the Christians, and a volume of miscellaneous writings.
Finally, we plan to put the entire series on a CD-ROM when completed, together with public domain translations of related material. This is not likely to be before 2004 - so keep buying the books!
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