... student of Plato, later on we see that his views start to diverged as Plato was a "Utopian thinker of the existence of order while Aristotle was not".1 Aristotle is generally regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in a number of philosophical fields, including political theory, His Politics or "Polis" is ... rights and "self sufficiency". Today everyone have their own natural rights from Men to Women to Children. And the interpretations are different from what Aristotle thought...today not only men but also women work in the Offices. Children after being at a legal age they can...

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... , and intellectual goodness. His views have survived thousands of years and his thoughts are still regarded as some of the most solid philosophies. Happiness is what Aristotle attributed to be the base of a perfect life. He said, "that which is always chosen for it's own sake and never for the sake of ... his friends. He said, "Many of his actions are performed to serve his friends or his country, even if this should involve dying for them." (Aristotle 399) He believed that when things were done for a noble cause that people didn't think of the consequence, only the personal pride that th...

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... of his life. Little is known about his mother, Phaestis; she is also believed to have died when Aristotle was young. After Aristotle's father died, Proxenus of Atarneus, who was married to Aristotle's older sister, Arimneste, became Aristotle's guardian until he came of age. When Aristotle turned 17, Proxenus sent him to Athens to pursue a higher education. At the time, Athens was considered ... they built the school's massive collection of written materials, which by ancient accounts was credited as one of the first great libraries. In the same year that Aristotle opened the Lyceum, his...

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... that medical skills were kept secret and passed down from father to son. His mother, Phaestis, was from Chalcis in Euboea, and owned property there. When Aristotle was about ten years old, his father died, along with his mother a few years later. His guardian, Proxenus of Atuneus, who was his uncle, then ... brought him up. Proxenus taught Aristotle Greek poetry and rhetoric's. In 367 BCE, at age seventeen, Proxenus sent him to Athens, the intellectual center of the world, to join Plato's Academy. ... to Chalcis in Euboea, in the home owned by his deceased mother. In his first year in C...

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... expresses his opinions on the basis of thought through eudaimonia and arete. Eudaimonia is the goal of human conduct, or telos in Greek. In English, Eudaimonia translates into happiness, but Aristotle uses it as a well being through prospering and flourishing. To achieve this "prospering and flourishing,"" one needs satisfaction of a job well done. Arete is excellence in fulfilling a function, also ... thought up is on the activity of the consumption of alcohol. The vice (excess) is drunkenness, the mean (intermediate) is liveliness, and the vice (defeciency) is sobriety. In this discus...

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... goodness, thus depending more on the person giving the award rather than the person receiving it. In addition to the aforementioned claims, He equates goodness with performing one's function well. Aristotle attaches a function that is unique to human beings: rational activity and that is also the soul's activity based on the premise that human's function is the activity of the soul ... developed through constant training and not concerned with human characters, the idea of temperament doesn't apply. On the other hand, moral virtues are concerned with human characters, feelings and desir...

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... educated young thirteen year old Alexander. Philip died seven years later after Aristotle's arrival. In between this two years, Aristotle taught Alexander about Greece and its people and culture, and Alexander became very interested. So out of respect, Aristotle stayed with Alexander, who was now at the age of twenty, ... Athens and founded his own school in Lyceum. His school was formed after Plato Academy. "It was formed as a religious brotherhood." Aristotle was a productive writer and he was described as "fond and dandy of good living." He classified his works as: 1) Logic 2) ... a ...

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... his theories. Plato the teacher believed in Forms which he thought where prior to the physical world, and that Forms are eternal, unchanging and indivisible. Aristotle believed that the physical world was prior to the Universals and the particular things in the physical world are called, "thises," things that have substance. ... has in common with other things of its nature; this is a things essence, as it is part of a given species. The Universals according to Aristotle is the second substance because it takes part in characteristics such as substance, quantity, quality, relation, etc. ...

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... came to the conclusion, through process of elimination, that the soul must rule the body and be the essence of the human person (pomerleau, 13). Aristotle does not say that the soul rules the body, but argues that the body cannot possibly be a body without the soul and the soul cannot be ... thought, and the ability to make free choices. This is the highest type of soul. These different types of souls are on somewhat of a hierarchy level which Aristotle refers to as more primitive souls. For example a dog is more capable of things then a bush is because it has a higher level of soul, an...

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... "(Lindberg,p.218). However, around 1230,Avincenna's commentaries began to be replaced by those of Averroes, " There was no question that Averroes too was capable of extending or distorting Aristotle's meaning, and that he did so on occasion"(Lindberg, p.218). The problem with Averroes was that claims were made that his commentaries violated orthodox Christian doctrine. This further ... since they were the ones most likely to be literate. " The church, as the dominant institution throughout western and central Europe, played a major role in determining intellectual priorities: Aristotle c...

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... to avoid vice. For my first point, pleasure can't amount to happiness alone because pleasure isn't the goal of life according to Aristotle. According to Aristotle, "Aristotle is concerned with action, not as being right or good in itself, but as it is conductive to human good," (72 ... of life is to strive for happiness. While striving for happiness, pleasure is just something that is included while attaining happiness. I totally agree with Aristotle because for me personally, if I just aim for pleasure for myself, my actions may bring misfortune upon others, for example eating certain ty...

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... the knowledge of right and wrong or the knowledge of a certain subject, whereas an older person may have the knowledge of these things. Therefore Aristotle says that prudence also comes with age, wisdom, and experience. Through experience and age we begin to form opinions and see bases of right and ... wrong, or gain knowledge of certain things. Aristotle also says then that prudence deals with particulars. Particulars are situation relevant; they are concerned with what is going on, when, and what can be ... done to get a certain outcome. To Aristotle universals and particulars are lik...

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... on northern Greece. His father was a medical doctor named Nicomachus. His mother was named Phaestis. Nicomachushad probably was born in Chalcidice or around that region. Aristotle's mother came from Chalcis where her family owned property. Aristotle did a lot of travelling with his father because doctors at the time made house calls. Nicomachus moved from to the neighboring state of Macedonia. He had ... so much success there that he became the personal doctor of King Amyntas III. Aristotle became good friends with Philip, the King's son. When Aristotle was around ten his father died. H...

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... very different and distinct backgrounds. Confucius' ideas were spawned as a result of his immersion and presence in the ancient Chinese culture while Aristotle's ideas were as a result of his immersion and presence in the ancient Greek culture. In spite of this, however, both touched ... is good, and that the end must be toward the highest good, more specifically, the knowledge of that which will influence all lives (Aristotle, 350, B.C.). Aristotle believed that the benefit of the state should always be placed for the sake of the individual, a particular mindset that he received as a ...

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... to say that since city-states aim higher than other communities to involve all people, they are a political community. Also in this chapter, Aristotle differentiates between the positions of statesman, king, household manager, and master of slaves, which he refers to throughout Book 1. He concludes this chapter ... who come together out of necessity, and then gives two examples: men and women for procreation, and slave and owner for survival. Aristotle states that those who possess natural insight should rule those who use their body for labor, and that this relationship is beneficial t...

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... combined with reversal, produces either pity or fear (or in some cases, both); and actions which produce these effects are those by which, by Aristotle's definition, tragedy represents. Recognition, then, if it is between persons, may be that only one person recognizes a truth concerning the hero's identity, ... should be constructed so that the events are so terrifying that one needs not see the play to feel the anguish of the events (Aristotle 27). Aristotle also discusses another major feature of a good tragedy: the tragic hero. He implies that when creating a tragic hero, he or she ...

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... citizenship. He states; "it often happens that one who is a citizen in a democracy is not a citizen in an oligarchy." However, Aristotle defined a common denominator for citizenship. Citizens are persons who perform public tasks. Who are different from other inhabitants of the polis because they are allowed ... to take part in passing judgment and holding office.2 In stating 'holding office' Aristotle is broadminded. He does not narrow it down to what we might call civil servants, but also includes people who have to perform jury ... However, he did not write these poor people off c...

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... community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other." Aristotle discussed the distinction between democracy and oligarchy, and which government he desired the most. He also explored the duties and obligations of citizens to their ... was a government of the many, and oligarchy of the few; instead, democracy was the state of the poor, and oligarchy of the rich. Aristotle preferred a monarchy, but believed that democracy was the best type of government. He favored democracy because it appeared to be safer and less suscept...

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... as we are philosophers or lovers of wisdom; for while both are dear, piety requires us to honour truth above our friends." -- Aristotle, Neomachean Ethics, p. 165 In Aristotle's writings, he disagrees with Plato's views on the world in many different instances. In this quote, he states that though Plato is ... is always the possibility of figuring out who your real children are, either by striking resemblances or from the people who do actually know. Aristotle further discredits Plato's idea of the holistic sense of happiness in the state, or that if all of his rules are followed, the st...

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... view based on the teachings of Jesus. (Not on "the Bible" but on the teachings of Jesus). Aristotle sees the good life as the state in which a person exhibits total virtue. Aristotle believes the perfect state will bring forth the virtue in men. He also argues that the good life is ... different for each individual because it comes from living one's life according to one's virtues, and each person has different virtues. Aristotle agrees that good life is the exhibition of perfect virtue, he disagrees on the particular definition of virtue, and it's relevance to happiness, and ... of at...

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... behaving ethically is morally imperfect. His ideal person practices behaving reasonably and properly until he or she can do so naturally and without effort. Aristotle believed that moral virtue is a matter of avoiding extremes in behavior and finding instead the mean between the extremes. For example, the virtue ... the vices of cowardice at one extreme and foolhardiness at the other. Similarly, the virtue of generosity is the mean between stinginess and wastefulness." "Aristotle's basic method of inquiry consisted of starting from what we know or think we know and then asking how, what...

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... result of circumstances completely out of his control. His plight is caused by the struggle of consummate good and evil as personified by God and Satan. Aristotle also states, in section VI, that the action must be "serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished." (Poetics 968). This ... imagery in Job, compared to its Greek contemporaries, is also greatly ahead of its time. These are not the only passages that answer to Aristotle's demands. The work is full of imagery and other poetic devices. Section VIII of Poetics is closely linked with sections VI and XXIII wi...

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... statement. Likewise, Bacon argues that his method starts with concrete things, rather than with previous ideas, which is not always clear. Therefore, according to him, Aristotle cannot possibly reach the truth. I conclude therefore that the signs of truth and soundness in the philosophies and sciences that are current are not at all good ... of those ideas, or from their fruits or their growth, or the admissions of their founders, or the fact of their common acceptance. (Bacon 87) Aristotle was biased because he used the natural philosophy against his logic, and made it a disputation in i...

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... the purpose of explaining this imitation, while The Gift of Death and Archive Fever use deconstructionism as a tool for extending other philosophies. Aristotle divides his relatively brief Poetics into twenty-six separate sections. His first section highlights the importance of judging a poem on how it ... author presents them to the audience. Therefore, style, not content, should provide a way in which to categorize poetry. In Section Five, Aristotle continues on to distinguish the boundaries between Tragic, Comedic, and Epic poetry. Comedy is considered to be a "lower form" of tragedy...

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... statement. Likewise, Bacon argues that his method starts with concrete things, rather than with previous ideas, which is not always clear. Therefore, according to him, Aristotle cannot possibly reach the truth. I conclude therefore that the signs of truth and soundness in the philosophies and sciences that are current are not at all good ... of those ideas, or from their fruits or their growth, or the admissions of their founders, or the fact of their common acceptance. (Bacon 87) Aristotle was biased because he used the natural philosophy against his logic, and made it a disputation in i...

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