Aristotle was a teacher and studied under Plato at the academy and attended his lectures for a period of twenty years. ... I believe that according to Aristotle, the state was the beginning of all. ... This is why I think that Aristotle believed the state came first. ... Aristotle wrote much about rationality and irrationality of humans, and how much of each we share with animals. ... Aristotle felt the city is more important than the individual in some ways and because the city exists for the sake of living well, virtue must be a care for the city. ...

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And for that I am very thankful for Aristotle and all that he believed in. Aristotle created the foundation for many subjects that our society relies on today. Aristotle was born is Stagira, in northern Greece in 384 BC. ... Aristotle's thought on earth science are in his treatise of meteorology. ... Aristotle defines virtue as a dispositon developed over time. ...

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Like Plato, Aristotle strongly believed that happiness is more than just simple pleasure. ... Aristotle splits virtue into two parts: moral virtues and intellectual virtues. ... Aristotle believes that luck or fortune is needed to reach happiness. ... "No one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods" (Aristotle, 1155A)." ... Both Plato and Aristotle make very important points as they dive head first into these difficult questions. ...

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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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An enthymeme, according the Aristotle, is "a syllogism" in which "you must not begin the chain of reasoning too far back" and "you must not put in every single link" (Aristotle in Cooper 155). ... Aristotle argues that illicit generalizations, or "maxims that state as a universal truth what is not always true," can arouse anger in the audience (Aristotle in Cooper 154). ... Aristotle defines anger as "an impulse attended by paincaused by an obvious, unjustified, slight with respect to the individual or his friends" (Aristotle in Cooper 93). Ari...

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However, Aristotle, a well-known Greek philosopher, has a different view about rhetoric; he suggests that rhetoric is the counterpart of dialectic; that both can have similar functions. (490). ... " (Aristotle from Rhetoric, 490). ... Moreover, rhetoric is deemed very important and useful by Aristotle. ... (Aristotle, 492). ... Empowered with education, one can present arguments based on knowledge, and equipped with rhetoric, on the other hand, one can persuade his or her audience in a way that is far more effective than argument (Aristotle, 492). ...

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The question is what would I do and why, what would Aristotle say about my decision. ... Aristotle would most likely disagree with my selection because it does not involve telling the truth, and without truth there is not morality. ... (Souryal, 143) Thought my decision would be morally wrong which goes against Aristotle's theory my reasoning for my actions would prevail my wrongful actions. ...

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Additionally, he and Aristotle voice many theories and ideas that contradict their views on musical censorship, which thus weakens their overall arguments. ... Aristotle claims the city will operate successfully as a whole as it represent a genuine justice. ... Moreover, Aristotle makes a strong case in regards of a tyrant. ... This example confirms the contradiction expressed by Aristotle as he unconsciously disproves one of his main supporting arguments he uses to explain the reasoning for why music in a state must be censored. In the republic, Aristotle also expresses his thoughts on ju...

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Ilusion Faria Ms. Pinel What is happiness? Every person looks for the greatest good in their live and most of their action are a mean for that greatest good. The greatest good is happiness. Aristotle says "Everyone loves and seeks or pursues or desire everything they love or seek or pursue o...

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Aristotle sufficiently deprived an effective form/definition of rhetoric that I complied strongly with terms of acknowledgment towards my comprehensive understanding of rhetoric in addition to all of its associated appeals and strategies. ... To prove this statement, Aristotle pointed, "Argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct.... Furthermore, this process is related to Aristotle's definition of rhetoric because in contain the same theory of enthymemes therefore having all three parts to my logical argument increases the rate of s...

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Aristotle's scientific training kept him from dictating superhuman ideals and unattainable degrees of perfection. ... Aristotle's view of metaphysics came from his interest in Biology (Durant 56). Aristotle's metaphysics is, to some, Plato diluted by common sense (Russell 162). ... Aristotle, like many other philosophers of that time, gave undue importance to deduction in his theory of knowledge (Durant 128). ... Aristotle was the main player in ancient Greece, but many argued with him about everything. ...

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When I say that the 1) author of The Apology was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, it is identical to saying that the 2) author of The Republic was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. ...

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To begin with, reasoning can help us to reach higher levels of understanding, particularly when it is approached through Aristotle's dialectic method. ... Aristotle's development of dialectic reason ensures that investigation for each and every claim is thorough in examining both the thesis and the antithesis and according to Irwin (1990) it can "show us how to argue for different positions, and the ways in which different arguments can be misleading; and if we know this, we can both raise and solve puzzles." ...

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As far as we know, Aristotle was the first thinker to make the distinction explicit, and it may well have been his most important contribution to the development of logic. Although it is surprising how many people centuries after Aristotle's time still have trouble with this distinction. ...

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Aristotle supports that what most of the people think ("the appearances", or "the common beliefs"), are probably true. ... Aristotle states that in generosity, people give prudently and take pleasure in it. ...

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Idols Francis Bacon created "Idols" during the Renaissance. He was focused on inductive reasoning while earlier Aristotle was focused on deductive reasoning. While Bacon was in his state of inductive reasoning, the "Idols" were created. There are four Idols. The Idol of the Tribe, the Idol o...

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The first strength is the use of ethos, on other words like how Aristotle defined it "ethical appeal", for if someone else tried to talk about the problems that the celebrities faced with paparazzi, we the audience, wouldn't even care, but when the celebrities are talking about their hardship and sufferings, we emphasize with them, and we believe in them. ...

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It is very hard to win an argument, but Aristotle divided the art of persuasion into three categories: ethos pathos and logos. Ethos is the source's credibility, pathos is the emotional or motivation appeals and logos is the logic used to support the claim. These three elements are used when Calpurn...

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Time and again in history, great men, such as Aristotle, were believed because of their reputation while those with the correct assumptions, such as Democritus, are left out in the cold because they are unknown. ...

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Kant and the Theory of Human Knowledge Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is generally recognized as the greatest philosopher since Plato and Aristotle. During this period philosophers sought to apply the methods of science to the study of human beings. He was influenced greatly by the ethical and...

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William asserted, "It does not go against nature for it to be a pure thing if it were to happen that all its accidents were removed," (Guilfoy) leading to the example that two people like Aristotle and Plato are the same as they share the same material essence which is humanity but present individualistic accidents uniquely to each one of them. ...

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In Humanities last year we studied Existentialism. Although I liked some of Camus' ideas, he was a little whiner who missed the big picture. This year we studied Christianity, which is probably the most dominant religion in the U.S. and definitely in the top five globally. Almost every one has some ...

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Poetry and Unreality is Plato's famous attack on poetry and by extension, all forms of art which are aimed at inducing pleasure. Plato claims that poetry is two stages removed from the truth. Artists have no contribution to a society and their creations are merely representations of the reality. Hen...

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In contrast to the morality defined by Aristotle in his Nicomachaean Ethics, Creon shows that he is deaf to the knowledge of particulars--of place, time, manner, and persons, which is essential for moral reasoning. ...

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