About the Author

John Sellars is a Reader in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, a visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford. He is the author of Lessons in Stoicism and The Fourfold Remedy. His books have been translated into over a dozen languages.

Reviews

As Sellars says in this delightful little book, we should all aspire to know at least something about Aristotle's ideas and how they have shaped the way we think. I know he lived over two thousand years ago, but given just how much the greatest philosopher in history has influenced almost every aspect of human thought to this day, I fully agree. And this book does that job admirably.
*Jim Al-Khalili*

Aristotle: Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher is the latest book by John Sellars, who excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. For those of us not yet brave enough to embark on the Nicomachean Ethics, this 144-page book is a great way into one of the greatest philosophers of all time
*Five Books Best of 2023*

Everyone should desire to know about Aristotle because his philosophy is a crucial foundation for ethics, science, logic, politics and aesthetics in the western tradition. This short book is a brilliantly clear introduction to the whole range of his thought.
*Robert Eaglestone, author of Truth and Wonder: a Literary Introduction to Plato and Aristotle*