Topics: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Topics, credited to Aristotle, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Topics, by Aristotle. Read by Geoffrey Edwards. The Topics is is the fifth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). The Topics constitutes Aristotle's treatise on the art of dialectic—the invention and discovery of arguments in which the propositions rest upon commonly-held opinions or endoxa. Topoi are "places" from which such arguments can be discovered or invented. In his treatise on the Topics, Aristotle does not explicitly define a topos, though it is "at least primarily a strategy for argument not infrequently justified or explained by a principle." (Adapted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Topics
• Author credits: Aristotle
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 7:21:36

Catalogue topics

• Science
• non-fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Book I Chapters 1-7 — 19:56
2. 02 - Book I Chapters 8-14 — 17:43
3. 03 - Book I Chapters 15-18 — 20:41
4. 04 - Book II Chapters 1-6 — 26:46
5. 05 - Book II Chapters 7-11 — 22:01
6. 06 - Book III Chapters 1-6 — 34:16
7. 07 - Book IV Chapters 1-3 — 25:45
8. 08 - Book IV Chapters 4-6 — 33:45
9. 09 - Book V Chapters 1-3 — 24:28
10. 10 - Book V Chapters 4-5 — 22:25
11. 11 - Book V Chapters 6-9 — 23:57
12. 12 - Book VI Chapters 1-4 — 24:07
13. 13 - Book VI Chapters 5-8 — 29:08
14. 14 - Book VI Chapters 9-14 — 31:26
15. 15 - Book VII Chapters 1-5 — 24:18
16. 16 - Book VIII Chapters 1-2 — 19:25
17. 17 - Book VIII Chapters 3-10 — 20:15
18. 18 - Book VIII Chapters 11-14 — 21:25

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