Aristotle's theories and works included different fields, from logic, philosophy, and ethics to physics, biology, psychology, politics, and rhetoric. ... Where as physics is the attempt to discover the laws that govern fundamental concrete objects, metaphysics is the attempt to discover the laws that systematize the fundamental abstract objects presupposed by physical science, such as natural numbers, real numbers, functions, sets and properties, physically possible objects and events, to name just a few. ... He concluded the heavens obeyed different laws of physics than earth, and thin...

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What is literature? We have to answer some basic questions when we study theory of literature. What is literature? What is literary study? Are they both different? What is the distinction? These questions are followed by the questions about the nature of literature, its functions, etc. Theory of lit...

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During the Hellenic and Hellenistic periods, the ancient Greeks were hard at work, making long-lasting contributions to art, poetry, drama, sports, mathematics, science and philosophy. The Hellenic period, also called the "classical period, lasted from 1200 B.C. to 334 B.C. and were the years noted ...

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Three Great Philosophers What makes a civilization great? It depends on the tools, the laws, class structures, religions, and government. However, it also depends on the way an individual thinks and how their way of thinking could contribute to improving society. In ancient Greece, there lived thre...

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[COMMENTS: (1) This premiss is basic to Aristotle's understanding of nature; it occurs in several places in his writings, including Physics II.8. (2) Aristotle distinguishes the capacity of human beings to use language from the possession by many animals (including humans) of a voice which can signal pleasure and pain. (3) Here Aristotle's focus is on the use of language in exercising the virtue of intelligence and the virtues of character, the justice of which he here speaks being conceived as virtue of character in so far as it affects other human beings (Nicomachean Ethics V.1). ...

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