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( Aristotle)
Aristotle (Greek ???st?t????, Aristotéles) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings constitute a first at creating a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics. In the biological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the nineteenth century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late nineteenth century into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially Eastern Orthodox theology, and the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold"),[1] it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.[2] Despite the far-reaching appeal that Aristotle's works have traditionally enjoyed, today modern scholarship questions a substantial portion of the Aristotelian corpus as authentically Aristotle's own.[3] Aristotle was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about 55&_160;km (34&_160;mi) east of modern-day Thessaloniki.[4] His father Nicomachus was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy. At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy. Aristotle remained at the academy for nearly twenty years, not leaving until after Plato's death in 347 BC. He then traveled with Xenocrates to the court of his friend Hermias of Atarneus in Asia Minor. While in Asia, Aristotle traveled with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos, where together they researched the botany and zoology of the island. Aristotle married Hermias's adoptive daughter (or niece) Pythias. She bore him a daughter, whom they named Pythias. Soon after Hermias' death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander the Great in 343 B.C.[5]
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The best brain on the block by Tony Uechtritz
Get a head start by giving your brain some love this winter. If you’ve just scraped through (as opposed to breezed through) another exam week or manic assignment month, or if you’re finding just keeping on top of life’s daily tasks a challenge, don...
Losing Body Fat by Jon Paul
Has losing body fat been in the back of your mind for a while? You know, one of those things that you should be doing but just can't get into, because there always seems to be something more appealing that requires less work. The hardest part about w...
The Macrobiotic Diet - Natural Foods Eaten The Way Mother Nature Intended by Marcus Ryan
You may recall having heard periodical reports of celebrities who claim to have turned their health, if not their lives, around by adopting the macrobiotic diet. But the truth is that the macrobiotic diet really is more of a life change than a dieta...
Why Organic? by michel van
“Beauty is a glorious gift of nature.” Homer
What you put on your skin is absorbed through your skin. To be more precise, the skin absorbs approximately 60% of any substance applied to it. Hence the success of trans-dermal skin patches pres...
Mastery by Craig Burton
"All man's well-being depends upon two things: one is the right choice of aim, of the end to which actions should tend, the other lies in the finding of the actions that lead to that end." -Aristotle
Have you ever achieved a goal and though...
Time Line Therapy, origins and actions - a discussion by colin winston aldridge
Time Line Therapy, origins and actions – a discussion
This essay will look at the origins of Time Line Therapy (TLT). To do this I will outline a history of the discoverer of TLT, Tad James, M.S., Ph.D. Write briefly about the...
Losing Weight With the Lemonade Diet by Chuck Bluestein
This is also called the master cleanser lemonade fast, lemonade detox diet and lemonade cleansing diet. It is very popular now. Beyonce lost 20 pounds in 10 days for Dream Girls with it and Robin Quivers (Howard Stern's assistant) heard about it from...
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