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    Aristotle, the Man of Thinking Aristotle is his name, philosophy is the game. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist who was born in Stagira Greece in 384 B.C. He lived to be 62 years old, which at the time, was a very good lifespan. Aristotle’s place of death was in Chalcis. His full name is Aristotle Stagiritis son of Nicomachus. He had a wife by the name of Hermias and a son with the name of Pythias. Aristotle is known well for teaching the world renowned man, referred to today as Alexander

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    Plato and Aristotle made and still have make a huge impact upon mankind, which makes people question their original values.Although Aristotle and Plato had many distinctions both of them impact many different arguments referring to the important components of life.. The two philosophers were crucial to the development of rethoric and made a big impact on society.. Although most of the attitudes towards them where indisputable, many citizens did not agree with them changing people’s perceptions, fearing

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    Who was Aristotle? Aristotle was born in the ninety-ninth Olympiad or 384 BCE, in a now extinct Greek colony called Stagira. He was the son of Nicomachus, a court physician to King Amyntas III of Macedonia and his mother, Phaestis was the descended from the first founders of Stagira (s). Little information is known about his mother, but it is believed that she died when Aristotle was young. "Aristotle was the son of Nicomachus, who traced his lineage and his profession back to Machaon, the son of

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    Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist, and one of the most influential people in history. He was the author of a philosophical and scientific system that became the basis for both Christian Scholasticism and medieval Islamic philosophy. Even after the intellectual revolutions of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, Aristotle’s concepts remained embedded in Western thinking. Aristotle’s intellectual range covered most of the sciences and many of the arts, including

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    Aristotle was a greek philosopher who is widely known for his “groundwork of western philosophy (Aristotle).” Aristotle was born in the B.C.s; he had quite an interesting early life; Aristotle was an excellent teacher; he studied the concept of logic itself; he also investigated Earth Science, Physics and the scale of being: and Aristotle pioneered the study of zoology. Aristotle was born in the B.C.s. Aristotle was born in Stagira around circa 384 B.C. He was the child of Nicomachus and Phaestis

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    Aristotle Four Causes

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    Aristotle doctrine of four causes tell us what material a thing is made out of, the form it takes, how the substance by which something is brought about and lastly the purpose of its existence. Any substance can be broken down into four causes. There is material cause, formal cause and finally the efficient cause. The material cause is what an object is made up of. For instance, the material cause of a chair is wood and without the wood the chair would not exist. And the material cause of a house

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    Aristotle was Philosopher of classical Greece, including with Plato and Socrates. When Aristotle passed away, he left behind a corpus of his work that was in Arab and European worlds of the middle ages and also Renaissance. Aristotle wrote a book for his son Nicomachus which is “Nicomachean ethics.” But Aristotle argues that the supreme goal of any human life is to be happy. Aristotle also describes the necessity of the conditions for a living of a happy life. Aristotle talks about all human activities

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    -Aristotle (SayingBook) Through out our lifetime, history has based the foundation of our people. History is a part of mankind, and an essential part of life. Rhetorical Theory has been a base in our communication for centuries, and has made the way humans communicate change drastically. One major contributor to the development of Rhetorical Theory was the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Growing up in northern Greece, Aristotle studied language, music, poetry, and geometry. Aristotle entered

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    the subject is so controversial, the term cannot exactly be defined. There are many philosophers that have many different views and opinions on philosophy. In this essay, I will be talking about the three great philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and how they help to define what exactly philosophy is. These three Greek philosophers represent the birthplace of Western philosophy and help to shed some light on the actual meaning of the term. Socrates is from about 400 B.C. His final destination

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    In this essay, I will be examining the ethics of Plato and Aristotle. I will explain the five fundamental concepts of Plato and Aristotle. I will focus on their theories on the good life as a life of justice, censorship, knowledge and the good life. I will first explain Plato’s ethics. Plato was a philosopher, both a rationalist and absolutist. According to Plato, people must be schooled to obtain certain kinds of knowledge for example mathematics, philosophy etc. The training will give them the

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