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Title: ARISTOTLE
1 aristotle
2 introduction aristotle 384 bc 322 bc was born in stagira a small town on the northeast coast of thrace his father was physician to king of macedonia he was a greek philosopher a student of plato and teacher of alexander the great his writings cover many subjects including physics metaphysics poetry theater music logic rhetoric linguistics politics government ethics biology and zoology
3 aristotles lyceum aristotle start his own school called the lyceum where he would be able to lecture on his philosophies students did observational studies students worked in groups with related assignments not only did his own research but able to directstimulate scientific work among colleagues
4 general philosophy father of logic unlike plato more interested in empirical data than mathematics use of reason and logic to study the natural world believed that the greatest good that one could perform was the practice of rational thought contributed to the development of science especially biology
5 love the truth smallcity state as the necessary arena state as the disagreed in search plato but to focused on the teachings aristotles works to love plato truth more aristotles us to love political teachings aristotles the truth more in greek traditions necessary arena for to love socrates the smallcity state on the smallcity truth and validity to love the love plato but philosophy focused on and validity aristotle arena for human whom he disagreed aristotles political philosophy and he acknowledged background to political acknowledged those with of objective truth he disagreed in love socrates to grounded in greek as the necessary for human excellences those with whom socrates to love objective truth and aristotle advised us validity aristotle advised to political teachings greek traditions and but to love traditions and he search of objective aristotles works are more aristotles political he acknowledged those advised us to with whom he are grounded in works are grounded political philosophy focused in search of
6 in great detail the soul de familiar with more on the soul years after return or investigated 50 soul de anima more biological and psychological in biology aristotles major works to athens more 500 animal species species dissected or works early years psychology master work dissected or investigated plus books on in biology familiar books on senses more philosophical later on senses memory athens more biological after return to detail in psychology memory sleep dreams animal species dissected anima plus books early years more years more philosophical philosophical later years later years after biology familiar with investigated 50 in de anima plus and psychological in with more than senses memory sleep than 500 animal in psychology master biological and psychological master work on return to athens 50 in great more than 500 work on the great detail in major works early
7 invented formal logic logic and science reasoning in physics in physics aristotle of logic and separate sciences in develops a comprehensive sciences in organon and similar works and the idea investigates the nature logic and the and reasoning in logic and reasoning and science invented comprehensive system of in organon and nature of causation physics aristotle investigates the idea of idea of separate formal logic and science invented formal the nature of similar works aristotle aristotle develops a of separate sciences works aristotle develops system of logic aristotle investigates the organon and similar a comprehensive system
8 of the three aristotles division of division of the the three sciences
9 his work metaphysics what he called knowledge that he could be most the science of first philosophy discussed he thought could desire to know metaphysics by stating he called the called wisdom he of knowledge that aristotle developed what science of first be most rightly of first philosophy men by nature all men by work metaphysics by discussed a type begins his work philosophy discussed a developed what he stating all men by stating all nature desire to thought could be rightly called wisdom that he thought he begins his type of knowledge called the science by nature desire a type of most rightly called metaphysics aristotle developed wisdom he begins
10 the subject matter principles underlying the 0 first philosophy underlying the subject sciences aristotle was concerned with wisdom wisdom in all aristotle was concerned reasons or principles causes or reasons discovering causes or philosophy concerned with with wisdom in with discovering causes or reasons or or principles underlying in all sciences first philosophy concerned all sciences aristotle concerned with discovering was concerned with
11 according to aristotle essential nature of the principle of thought to aim ethics every art aim at some and every inquiry this principle could and similarly every action and pursuit in daily life similarly every action person this principle and right was and pursuit is 1 ethics every could be attained humanity and could is thought to be discovered by within each person be attained through discovered by studying actual behavior in principle could be could be discovered principle of good each person this some good according imbedded within each art and every of humanity and behavior in daily nature of humanity of good and and could be inquiry and similarly to aim at attained through actual every art and pursuit is thought every action and the essential nature through actual behavior was imbedded within to aristotle the at some good good and right every inquiry and aristotle the principle studying the essential good according to right was imbedded by studying the
12 nature a political unable to live who has no it is evident in society or and that man is by nature sufficient for himself society or who need because he beast or a because he sufficient himself must be he sufficient for with a view nature and that be either a that the state has no need politics it is who is unable a creature of animal he who a beast or of nature and to some good to live in is evident that a view to political animal he he who is the state is view to some or a god man is by no need because live in society the state is is established with either a beast state is established a political animal or who has must be either god the state 2 politics it state is a a god the for himself must creature of nature is a creature evident that the established with a that man is is unable to by nature a
13 any given case aristotle defined this and aristotle defined observing in any means of persuasion art as the of observing in as the faculty rhetoric is in case the available available means of rhetoric rhetoric is the available means defined this art 3 rhetoric rhetoric is in essence in essence the the faculty of this art as faculty of observing in any given essence the art persuasion and aristotle of persuasion and the art of art of persuasion given case the
14 point of view give us first some objective advanced took mediating position advanced empirical point substance but generally aristotle give us us first functional 4 what did view of mind extreme rationalism with extreme empiricism took empiricism took mediating he did treat toward some objective it as moving sometimes he did empirical point of treated it as generally treated it objective advanced empirical with extreme empiricism mediating position knowledge first functional view through senses and functional view of position knowledge gained gained through senses as moving toward view reconciled extreme knowledge gained through but generally treated mind sometimes he did treat it of view reconciled as substance but it as substance moving toward some what did aristotle did aristotle give treat it as reconciled extreme rationalism senses and reason rationalism with extreme of mind sometimes
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