Literature "organized violence committed on ordinary speech" (Eagleton) While the definition of literature has been widely disputed throughout history, British literary theorist, Terrence Eagleton, attempts to make sense of it all during the introduction of his 1983 book, What is Literature. ... 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). ...

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Aristotle Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, and one of the greatest minds in human history. ... 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 properti...

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Subject, Methods, Approaches, History of Psychology The subject of the history of psychology - understanding of the psyche (its nature, origin, functions, mechanisms) at different stages of the progressive development of science. Methods of the history of psychology. ... Approaches to the Study of the History of Psychology "Personalist" approach as opposed to "context." ... These views are held by Leo Tolstoy, who in the novel "War and Peace" called great men "slaves of history." ... Example: in the physics of Newton's paradigm was replaced by Einstein's paradigm. ...

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These centuries are considered by many to be the most creative and influential period in history. ... Most of his writings were about politics, poetry, ethics, botany, physics, metaphysics, rhetoric, astronomy, zoology, logic and psychology. ... Later, Herodotus (ca. 485-425BC.) and Thucydides (ca. 455-397BC.) founded history-writing. Herodotus' history was relied on information of older people that he interviewed. ... Most of the history that they wrote was on the Peloponnesian war. ...

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There is a temptation to argue that, although God may not be needed to explain the evolution of complex order once the universe, with its fundamental laws of physics, had begun, we do need a God to explain the origin of all things. ... Atkins explains how each step in the history of the universe followed, by simple physical law, from its predecessor. ...

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There, he taught philosophy, math, astronomy, science, history, physical education, and rhetoric, the art of speaking or writing effectively. ... He classified plants and animals and came up with the physics theory. ...

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By "the collected political systems" (Nicomachean Ethics X.9.1181b17), Aristotle means a collection of constitutional histories of 158 Greek city-states which Aristotle had prepared as a basis for his lectures on politics; by comparison, the United Nations currently recognizes only 174 independent nation-states on earth today. Of the 158 constitutional histories, only one, the Constitution of Athens, survives; scholars think that it was written by Aristotle himself. ... [COMMENTS: (1) This premiss is basic to Aristotle's understanding of nature; it occurs in several places in his writings...

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