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2 days ago · Aristotle [A] ( Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; [B] 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts.
4 days ago · Aristotle became known as "the Philosopher" (for example, this is how he is referred to in the works of Thomas Aquinas). In the Middle Ages, a synthesis between Aristotelian ethics and Christian theology became widespread, as introduced by Albertus Magnus. The most important version of this synthesis was that of Thomas Aquinas.
6 days ago · Universe - Aristotle, Medieval, Thought: The systematic application of pure reason to the explanation of natural phenomena reached its extreme development with Aristotle (384–322 bce), whose great system of the world later came to be regarded as the synthesis of all worthwhile knowledge.
5 days ago · Classics for everyone. 4 Essential Lessons from Aristotle about Being Human. “The universe we live in is the same one that we think in. It is almost as if we find ourselves in the world in order to think about it. We think about the particular things in it, what they are, how they function. We also come to think about the universe as a whole ...
4 days ago · The beginning of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of the foundational texts of the discipline. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality. It is often characterized as first philosophy, implying that it is more fundamental than other forms of philosophical inquiry.
5 days ago · "Aristotle was the founder not only of logic in western philosophy, but of ontology as well, which he described in his Metaphysics and the Categories as a study of the common properties of all entities, and of the categorial aspects into which they can be analyzed.
5 days ago · Metaphysics, written around 350 BCE, is among Greek philosohper Aristotle's most notable works. The text includes an excerpt from part seven of the ten part work. This source is a part of the Diversity and Change in Greco-Roman Religious Beliefs teaching module.
5 days ago · 1. Introduction. This paper seeks to determine the causal powers ascribed by Aristotle to perceptible qualities, known as ‘the special perceptibles’ (ta idia aisthēta), such as colours, sounds, odours, flavours, and tangible qualities.There is a general consensus in the scholarship that Aristotle is a realist about perceptible qualities, meaning that, for him, qualities exist as features ...
4 days ago · It was Aristotle (384–322 BC), a Greek universal scholar, who first listed five senses “sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell” in his seminal work “De Anima” ( 1 ). A sixth sense was proposed by the Scottish physiologist and anatomist Charles Bell (1774–1842) as the “muscular sense,” which was later termed “proprioception ...
2 days ago · Jul 05, 2024. This week, we started what I’ve now named our Summer of Aristotle, which is a not-so-clear and maybe a bit overblown way of saying we’ve started reading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics together. As a reminder, here’s the schedule: July 1: Introducing the work, Aristotle’s life, etc. July 8: Book I. July 15: Book II. July ...
