Where in Plato there was a "quarrel between poetry and philosophy", by Aristotle's scheme poetry is more philosophic even than history (a chronicle of "real" events). Where Socrates puts it to Glaucon that an imitator is "he who is not in direct contact with nature", with Aristotle the best poets, in order to work their imitations, must be closely allied with nature. ... Finally this leads us to questions of the end of poetry itself, and its justification for existence, that is, why imitate at all and can we obtain knowledge and/or pleasure through it Both P...

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While Classical Philosophy tangles with many questions, one could surmise from the readings that the universal goal of most (classical) philosophers was to answer the question "what is the best life?" ... For this to occur, philosophy must rule the city, ideally under a philosopher king. ... Aristotle states that there are "three most favored lives" " (Nicomachean Ethics 256). ... This observation leads Aristotle to analyze virtue as it relates to the soul. ... This conclusion is the basis for Aristotle's doctrine of the mean, as well as the significance Aristotle places in prudence. ...

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Prior to Galileo, it was believed, as Aristotle had proclaimed, that everything on Earth was made out of a combination of four elements (earth, air, fire, or water) and that everything outside of the Earth was made of a fifth element called ether (University of Michigan). Aristotle and his followers also believed that everything outside the earth was perfectly spherical and smooth, apparently a quality of ether (University of Michigan). ... These assumptions were, of course, based on the works of Aristotle. ... After observing the phases of Venus, it seemed perfectly obvious to Galileo that...

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Summary Until Galileo's time science was a handmaiden of philosophy which in turn was the handmaiden of theology. ... This contradicted express statements by Aristotle concerning the heavens where no change could ever take place. The Church at the time accepted Aristotle's view that the heavens were made of perfect and unalterable substance called the "quintessence". ... Throughout the book Drake attempts to portray Galileo as a man striving for a new philosophy that would displace verbal exercise of Aristotle but unlike them did not set one forth. Drake comments that, "Aristotle&#...

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1. PREHISTROIC/EGYPT/MESOPOTAMIA Early on, when man had but a basic understanding of himself, it is theorized that he (they) had a basic religious belief. The belief was in Animism and The Locus Mundi. Animism is the term given to the belief that everything has its own spirit, or energy. Not just things we consider "alive", but hills, waterfalls, the air you breathe, all of these had energy. ...

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Condorcet was even more flowing with confidence in people, and made additions to the philosophy of his Enlightenment counterparts. ... Aristotle was the third great Greek philosopher. ... Thus, his teleological (ends-based) philosophy is called a science of ends. Aristotle tried to reconcile Pericles and Plato (i.e., political action and philosophy) in one. ... Locke wanted to combine natural law and utilitarian philosophy. ...

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1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve. Over 5 million years ago, primates walked on all fours. ...

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My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. ... It is true that we also can write poems with our mind and make paintings and music and invent theories and philosophies. ... Ideas about knowledge and truth form a very essential part of Western philosophy and that also is understandable since we are human because of that extra mental capability we have, our mind, our spirit, our ratio. ... Plato lived in Athena, Greece, in about the same time Aristotle lived there. Actuall...

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The English period of Renaissance led to the breaking of the medieval knowledge and philosophy, infusing a new spirit of freedom, introducing a note of patriotism and national glorification, and also accompanying a revolt against the authority of the Pope. ... Scholasticism focused on preparing men to be doctors, layers of professional theologians, and was taught from approved textbooks in logic, natural philosophy, medicine, law and theology. ... This was accomplished through the study of the studia humanitatis, today known as the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry and moral philo...

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The idea of inequality goes even as far back as Aristotle when he stated: The universe resembles a large and well-regulated family, in which all the officers and servants, and even the domestic animals, are subservient to each other in a proper subordination; each enjoys the privileges and perquisites peculiar to his place, and at the same time contributes, by just that subordination, to the magnificence and happiness of the whole. ... The Anglo-Saxons contributed to this philosophy by creating their own "subordination-; this logical concept spread from generation to generation like a wildfir...

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Soren Kierkegaard, in his struggle to understand human existence, believed that time is a major factor for this understanding. As humans, we exist in time, and therefore it is an aspect of human nature, given that anything human entails human nature. The aim in this paper is to focus on the concept of "the eternal" and how it relates to the human being. In order to do this we will need to develop Kierkegaard's conception of the self, and the difference between spatialized time and life time. In his book The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard defines the self as: "Man is spirit. ...

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Alexander was educated as a student by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. The philosopher imbued Alexander with a love of Greek art and poetry, and instilled in him a lasting interest in Philosophy and science. ...

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Cesare Lombroso was an Italian criminologist born in Venice, Italy on November 18, 1836 to parents of Jewish decent. He wrote several books which were published including a book on antisemitism. Blaming Jewish people for their conditions and proposed assimilation as the answer for problem of prejudice. Also in his career he published other books that were highly derogatory works on women. Lombroso studied at several universities including the following but not limited to the University of Padua, Vienna University and the University of Paris. ...

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Motley, and Francis Parkman were followed by such brilliant and questioning men as Henry Adams. 12 The broader interest in the philosophy of history had not died, and the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel had created a school of idealistic historians. ...

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Psyche Although willing to provide a common account of the soul in these general terms, Aristotle devotes most of his energy in De Anima to detailed investigations of the soul's individual capacities or faculties, which he first lists as nutrition, perception, and mind, with perception receiving the lion's share of attention.  ...

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