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Aristotle
Born: 384 BCE - Stagirus on the coast of Thrace
Died: 322 BCE - Chalcis in Euboea
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Famous for:
Aristotle studied
under Plato but later diverged from some of Plato's ideas.
During his years of teaching, he expanded his ideas on Rhetoric.
He wrote "The Categories" - a classification of Words. He felt
Logic was the equivalent of verbal reasoning. He wrote
"Ethics" explaining the aspirations and desire behind man's desire
for happiness. |
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Humanist Ideas:
Aristotle
saw the universe as form evolving to matter. He had form without
matter on one end and matter without form on the other. Everything
in nature could be shown on this scale. He also developed a scale of
being. The higher being on this scale has more worth, is more
organic and cannot evolve. The lower being on this scale has less
worth, is more inorganic and can evolve over time. |
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Noted Sayings:
"A man is the origin of his
action."
(Nicomachean Ethics Bk III, Ch 3)
"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to
be conscious of our own existence." (Nicomachean Ethics Bk IX, Ch 9)
"The actuality of thought is
life."
(Metaphysics Bk 1 Ch 7)
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