Aristotle

Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote many books about physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology. Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, is generally considered one of the most influential ancient Greek philosophers in Western thought. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. The writings of Plato an ...

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Aristotle - Aristotle's ethics

Aristotle - Nicomachean ethics

Aristotle - Named after Aristotle

Aristotle: Encyclopedia II - Aristotle - Aristotle's ethics Although Aristotle wrote several works on ethics, the major one was the Nicomachean Ethics, which is considered one of Aristotle's greatest works; it discusses virtues. The ten books which comprise it are based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum and were either edited by or dedicated to Aristotle's son, Nicomachus. Aristotle believed that ethical knowledge is not certain knowledge (like metaphysics and epistemology) but is general knowledge. Also, as it is not a theoretical discipline, he thought a person ha ...

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Aristotle: Encyclopedia - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, named after the philosopher Aristotle, is the largest university of Greece. Its campus is located in the center of the city of Thessaloniki. It includes 44 Departments (τμήματα) which are organized in ten Faculties (σχολές): Faculty of Geotechnical Sciences: Department of Agriculture Department of Forestry and the Natural environment Department of Veterinary Medicine Faculty of Health Sciences: Department ...

Aristotle: Encyclopedia - Dunamis

Dunamis is a Greek word sometimes seen in English texts because of its importance in philosophy. Dunamis - Aristotle. Aristotle contrasted the Dunamis with energeia. Dunamis - Oracle of Dunamis. In Greek mythology, the Oracle of Dunamis (c.1400BC) contained a statue of a man who was to lead humanity into a time of spiritual prosperity - later to be attributed to Jesus by early Christians in support of Biblical prophecies. Believed to be situated sout ...

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Aristotle: Encyclopedia - Categories Aristotle

Categories (or "Categoriae") is a text from Aristotle's Organon that is meant to be an enumeration of all the possible kinds of thing which can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. The purpose of the Categories is to place every object of human apprehension under ten categories (known to medieval writers as the praedicamenta). They are intended to be an enumeration of everything which can be expressed without composition or structure, thus of anything which ...

Aristotle: Encyclopedia - Constitution of the Athenians

The Constitution of the Athenians or of Athens (or "Athenaion Politeia", or "The Athenians") is the name of either of two texts from Classical antiquity, one probably by Aristotle, the other attributed to Xenophon, but not by him. Constitution of the Athenians - Aristotle. The Aristotelian text is unique, because it is not a part of the Corpus Aristotelicum. It was lost until it was discovered in Egypt in 1890 by an American missionary. The British Museum acquired it later that year. Its authorship i ...

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Aristotle: Encyclopedia - Being

A being, in the most general sense, is anything that is alive. Being with a capital 'B', on the other hand, is often used in philosophy to refer to divine Being, God, or ultimate reality. In philosophy, a being is anything that can be said to be. Ontology is the philosophical study of being. See also categories of being and "I think, therefore I am". In linguistics, "to be" is a copula. Being - Being in historical philosophy. Being - Being and substance in Aristotl ...

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Aristotle: Encyclopedia - Category of being

In metaphysics (in particular, ontology), the different kinds or ways of being are called categories of being or simply categories. According to the Aristotelian tradition, a being is anything that can be said to be in the various senses of this word. Hence, to investigate the categories of being is to determine the most fundamental senses in which things can be said to be. A category, more precisely, is any of the broadest classes of things - 'thing' here meaning anything whatever that ca ...

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Aristotle: Encyclopedia - Atlantis

The "Lost city" of Atlantis was an ancient mythical island, whose existence and location have never been confirmed. The first references to Atlantis are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said it was engulfed by the ocean as the result of an earthquake 9,000 years before his own time. Plato claimed it was somewhere outside the Pillars of Hercules, now known as the Strait of Gibraltar. While there are many theories about Atlantis, nearly all serious research shows that Atlantis never existed as Plato described it, although elements of ...

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Aristotle: Encyclopedia - Zeno's paradoxes

Zeno's paradoxes are a set of paradoxes devised by Zeno of Elea to support Parmenides' doctrine that "all is one" and that contrary to the evidence of our senses, the belief in plurality and change is mistaken, and in particular that motion is nothing but an illusion. Several of Zeno's eight surviving paradoxes (preserved in Aristotle's Physics and Simplicius's commentary thereon) are essentially equivalent to one another; and most of them were regarded, even in ancient times, as very easy to refute. Three of the strongest and most famous—that of Achilles and the tortoise, the Dichotomy arg ...

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