... living, explanations of life, and guidelines of how a person should act. The basic definition of the word philosophy is, as an intellectual discipline, the study of ethics, metaphysics, physics, the science of knowledge, logic, and politics (Hallsall). A philosopher was an individual who made original contributions, not an ... perfection. He also considered ethics a large part of his logic (Copleston 270). The study of metaphysics is, in short, what underlies the existence of the universe. Aristotle's view of metaphysics came from his interest in Biology (Durant 56). Aristotle's metaphys...

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