Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Aristotle(384–322 BCE)

Aristotle is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1837–1845). One work is named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedQuotedMentioned
Present in
Letters · Essays
Documented
1837–1845
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“We have sought to interpret Plato mainly by himself, and by the aid, on the one hand, of his jealous rival, Aristotle, and on the other, of his enthusiastic admirer, Cicero.”
Plato Against the Atheists . . . · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Aristotle

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Aristotle in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1837—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p294
analyzed · quoted
“I bear constantly in heart that text of yours "0 my friends, there are no friends" but to me it is a paralyzing conviction.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller quotes what she treats as Emerson's memorable transcription of the Aristotelian aphorism "O my friends, there are no friends," a saying that circulated through Montaigne and Diogenes Laertius back to Aristotle's ethical writings.

1845—

Plato Against the Atheists . . .

“Plato Against the Atheists . . .”
mentioned
“We have sought to interpret Plato mainly by himself, and by the aid, on the one hand, of his jealous rival, Aristotle, and on the other, of his enthusiastic admirer, Cicero.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Plato Against the Atheists . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 14 May 1845. · 14 May 1845