I knew he was brilliant in the subject of philosophy but I had no idea how much he studied, and how knowledgeable he was about, animals, meteorology, governments, and society. Aristotle represents everything that philosophy is about, he loved learning about as much as he could and he wanted to share is knowledge with the world. ... Aristotle was born is Stagira, in northern Greece in 384 BC. ... Aristotle first trained in medicine, and then in 367 BC, he was sent to study philosophy with Plato in Athens. ... Aristotle's ethical philosophy is that happiness is the ultimate goal of humans. ...

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Philosophy can also be defined as the, "ultimate reality, causes and principles underlying being and thinking" ("Philosophy" 2213). ... Logic, Natural Philosophy, Ethics, Poetics and Metaphysics are some various subjects in Philosophy. ... Alexander the Great was tutored by Aristotle. ... Aristotle also has his own philosophies on emotions. ... Philosophy is considered the love of Wisdom. ...

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In the test of time, most philosophies are forgotten and replaced by newer, more modern ones. However, some of the oldest philosophies are still in effect today and are used in everyday living. ... The first element of philosophy is ethics. ... 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). ...

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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. ... "Without performing them nobody could even be on the way to becoming good... by taking refuge in argument they think they are engaged in philosophy and they will become good in this way. ... Aristotle believes that luck or fortune is needed to reach happiness. ... Aristotle's belief in action is a concept unexplored by Plato that changed philosophy's view on this subject. ...

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There are many definitions for rhetoric, but in accordance with the ancient Greek philosophy, rhetoric is the art of persuasion, and a rhetorician is one who makes the profession of using rhetoric. ... 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). ...

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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. ... Of course, this concept of "truth" is something that has been questioned and doubted by many people since the very beginning of philosophy. ...

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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. ... Despite this argument, I still consider reason to be a solid foundation for philosophical inquiry as it is assumed when one reasons for philosophy, they use a logical form of reason ( which is considered  as the correct form of reason) "for  if we have a methodical procedure of inquiry, we will more easily be able to undertake the subject proposed to us." ... Aristotle's development of dialectic reason ensures that investigation ...

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He was focused on inductive reasoning while earlier Aristotle was focused on deductive reasoning. ... Bacon says, And there is yet a third class, consisting of those who out of faith and veneration mix their philosophy with theology and traditions; among whom the vanity of some has gone so far aside as to seek the origin of sciences among spirits and genii. So that this parent stock of errors "this false philosophy-is of three kinds ; the sophistical, the empirical, and the superstitious ."" (421) Bacon explains how it is not good to mix philosophy and superstition with theolog...

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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. ... Kant and his philosophy was influenced by both Christianity and science and in seeing the most fundamental problems of philosophy in how to combine the two. ... One fundamental objective of his philosophy was to explain how scientific knowledge is possible. ...

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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. ... On an article from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Professor Peter king from the University of Toronto wrote that for Abelard, "The word refers to the item directly by naming or nominating it," and the sentence, "is a co...

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He judges poetry by the standards of philosophy, ethics and education but neglects to judge it by the standards of poetry itself. ... " [1] It is absurd to judge art by the standards of philosophy. ... Would it be fair to judge philosophy according to its aesthetic beauty? ... Aristotle, a student of Plato once said in the defence of art: "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance....

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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. ... He knows himself that doing philosophy every day is the greatest good. ... Then the court orders him to abandon philosophy on pain of death. ... As was argued, since the god commands the practice of philosophy and the pursuit of justice, to obey the god is to obey one's own reasoned conclusion about the just. ... Thus Socrates in the Crito recognizes the validity of, exerc...

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Great minds like Socrates, Plato, Paley, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Descartes have made arguments for the existence of God. We must realize that individuals like King James are in fact men, not Gods and the Bible is, in actuality, only a book and was also intended to be taken as a philosophy, a way of life; not literally! ...

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