Book 5
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Constitutions of 158 Cities, in general and in particular, democratic, oligarchic, aristocratic, tyrannical. Letters to Philip. Letters of Selymbrians. Letters to Alexander, four books. Letters to Antipater, nine books. To Mentor, one book. To Ariston, one book. To Olympias, one book. To Hephaestion, one book. To Themistagoras, one book. To Philoxenus, one book. In reply to Democritus, one book. Verses beginning Ἁγνὲ θεῶν πρέσβισθ’ ἑκατηβόλε (Holy One and Chiefest of Gods, far-darting). Elegiac verses beginning Καλλιτέκνου μητρὸς θύγατερ (Daughter of a Mother blessed with fair offspring).
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Such is the number of the works written by him. And in them he puts forward the following views. There are two divisions of philosophy, the practical and the theoretical. The practical part includes ethics and politics, and in the latter not only the doctrine of the state but also that of the household is sketched. The theoretical part includes physics and logic, although logic is not an independent science, but is elaborated as an instrument to the rest of science. And he clearly laid down that it has a twofold aim, probability and truth. For each of these he employed two faculties, dialectic and rhetoric where probability is aimed at, analytic and philosophy where the end is truth; he neglects nothing which makes either for discovery or for judgement or for utility.
