The publication offered to the attention of readers is the fourth volume of the capital work of A.F. Losev on the history of ancient aesthetics. The aesthetics of Aristotle and his school are considered here in the fullness of its contradictions. The main problems of Aristotle's aesthetics, or objectively idealistic aesthetics at the distinctive-descriptive stage, the ethics of relativity, as well as ontological aesthetics, Aristotelian aesthetics of expression, aesthetic categories, aesthetics of the sky, aesthetics of color, physiognomic aesthetics, Aristotle's teachings on art, rhetorical aesthetics, music and other arts.