Creation, love, and justice were important to the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. Plato, the teacher, and Aristotle, the student, had different views on each of the three issues. ... Aristotle thought of love as a feeling that could be controlled by the mind. ... Unlike Aristotle, Plato believed that love was unconquerable and couldn't be helped. ... Aristotle assumed justice was equality between all people. ...

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Another philosopher who has tried to solve the problem of emotions is Aristotle. ... Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle. During the reign of Alexander, Aristotle started a school of his own, the Lyceum. ... Aristotle also has his own philosophies on emotions. ... Aristotle agreed with Plato that emotions are controlled by the rational soul. ...

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Aristotle is the third philosopher I will discuss. "Perhaps the most important Platonist was Aristotle, for practically every significant Western Philosopher who did not find inspiration in Plato followed the guidance of Aristotle." ... (Stumpf 407) In this way Aristotle uses his training in biological sciences. ... Aristotle also uses memory as a philosophical principle. ... Aristotle's theory would best support my understanding of right and wrong. ...

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If we are going to consider Thomas Nagel's way of thinking and incorporate it into our definition of philosophy, we should consider his statement that was published in the New York Review of Books. He says, "Philosophy, unlike most other subjects, does not try to extend our knowledge by discovering...

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Realism Realism is the theory that everything exists independent of thought or knowledge. Everything is independent from the mind or what people think. A realist would say that if a tree fell in the forest, even if no one heard it or ever knew that the tree fell, it still made a sound. When a...

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Rene Descartes was born in La Haye, Touraine (France) in March of fifteen ninety-six. During the course of his life, he made many significant contributions to the progress of science, because of these achievements, he is known as the father of modern philosophy. He was a distinguished physicist, phy...

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Dreams are a window into the mind. These may be our most elaborate, distinctive, revealing, and flamboyant creations; they have fascinated us for thousands of years. The Egyptians built temples for dreaming. The oracles of Greece pondered cryptic dreams as the "royal road to the unconscious." Dreams...

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In later centuries, Hippocrates (a Greek physician), Aristotle (a Greek philosopher), and Galen (a Greek philosopher) believed that dreams often contained physiological information that may be cause of future illnesses. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. 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, hypocriti...

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