serve to discover the generalities of human thought. Without Aristotle‚ the concept of metaphysics would cease to exist. Taking this into consideration‚ it is evident that Aristotle plays a major part in the study of metaphysics and how we know it today. Therefore‚ he formulated the basic entities of metaphysics and constructed its foundation through his own philosophies. Also‚ after reviewing material presented by Socrates and Plato‚ Aristotle is able to develop an understanding of causes and substance
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Aristotle’s insistence that all specifically unjust actions are motivated by pleonexia Pleonexia can be understood as the desire to have more of some socially availablegood‚ and is usually translated as greed or acquisitiveness. Close . Second‚ Aristotle does not identify a deficient vice with respect to justice. This violates his "golden mean" doctrine with respect to virtue. Without the identification of the deficient vice with respect to justice‚ then justice must not be a virtue of character
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Aristotle describes virtue as balance between vices. (Nic. Ethics‚ IV 2). By being truly virtuous‚ that means one has reached ultimate perfection. The question is‚ can someone be virtuous? If being truly virtuous means one is perfect‚ many religions such as Christianity refutes the idea of a being having the ability to be perfect without being God. There are large issues that make one question how one can be virtuous‚ what path to take and discovering how that decision was made in the first place
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Plato and Aristotle Plato and Aristotle were two philosophers who made an impact on philosophy as we know it as today. Plato is thought of as the first political philosopher and Aristotle as the first metaphysical philosopher. They were both great intellectuals in regards to being the first of the great western philosophers. Plato and Aristotle each had ideas in how to better life by improving the societies in which they were part of during their lives. The views of Plato and Aristotle look different
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In the reading Nicomachean Ethics‚ by Aristotle‚ a well-known philosopher‚ wrote about what it is to be a good person and how being a good person‚ reflects our happiness. Along with writing by Aristotle‚ there was another writing by Immanuel Kant‚ called The Foundations of the Metaphysics of morals‚ that’s rights about the fundamentals of the moral duty. These two philosophers were very good and can very well go well with each other. Aristotle and Immanuel Kant can agree that‚ to be a moral person
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Buddhism & Aristotle Both Buddhism and Aristotle present intriguing philosophies; Buddhism promotes gratitude and suffering. Buddhists believe that happiness is not achieved by wealth‚ prestige‚ and luxury. Happiness is achieved by understanding the teachings of Buddhism and achieving nirvnana‚ which means to free the soul from bad Karma. On the other hand‚ Aristotle felt that Eudaimonia (happiness) was only achievable by fulfilling one’s full potential. In other words‚ happiness comes from
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ARISTOTLE AS A CRITIC. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.)‚ the son of a physician‚ was the student of Plato from approximately 367 B.C. until his mentor’s death in 348/347. After carrying on philosophical and scientific investigations elsewhere in the Greek world and serving as the tutor to Alexander the Great‚ he returned to Athens in 335 B.C.E. to found the Lyceum‚ a major philosophical center‚ which he used as his base for prolific investigations into many areas of philosophy. Aristotle is a towering
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thought. Many thinkers have pondered reason‚ and the various views on the nature of reason may not be compatible with one another.(Mesquita‚ 1992) Reason is sometimes narrowly defined as the faculty or process of drawing logical inferences. From Aristotle onwards‚ such reasoning has been classified as either deductive reasoning‚ meaning "from the general to the particular"‚ or inductive reasoning‚ meaning "from the particular to the general". In the 19th century‚ Charles Peirce‚ an American philosopher
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Aristotle‚ in his Politics‚ states "the relation of male to female is naturally that of the superior to the inferior-- of the ruling to the ruled" because the male possesses "the rational ... element"; the female "the irrational ... element". Using the stories‚ Eratosthenes and Diogeiton‚ I will prove whether if Aristotle was correct on his point that women are irrational element and men are rational. I think in Eratosthenes‚ Eratosthenes was irrational to have affairs and Euphiletus was inferior
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Analyzing Aristotle 1) The soul and the body are different forms. While the body is visible and mortal‚ the soul is invisible and immortal. He suggests that although the body dies and decays‚ the soul continues to exist. I do believe there is life after death‚ everyone must eventually die‚ and it cannot be avoided. However‚ even though death is a fact of life‚ it is a topic that many people prefer not to talk about. This avoidance of discussion is usually due to the denial of one’s own death and
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