Aristotle

Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from classical antiquity. Aristotle was probably the most famous member of Plato's Academy in Athens, whose writings would ultimately form the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. His writings were not constrained to simply one field of inquiry but covered such various subjects as physics, biology, metaphysics,...

Jonathan Barnes taught at the universities of Oxford, Geneva, and Paris-Sorbonne. He has published extensively on ancient philosophy and is the editor of The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation (Princeton). Anthony Kenny is a philosopher, former president of the British Academy, former master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, and the author of more than forty books, including A New History of Western Philosophy. Aristotle's...

Aristotle is indisputably of central importance to the development of philosophical and scientific thought in the western world. Here he refers to three types of lives, the common life, the political life, and the contemplative life, to which he assigns the highest order. Certainly, this is the most difficult life. Similar to Socrates, Aristotle believed that 'the unexamined life is a life not worth living.'

El filósofo griego Aristóteles es considerado, al igual que Platón (de quien fue discípulo), pionero y padre de la filosofía occidental. Por lo sistemático de sus estudios, el rigor con el que los llevaba a cabo y la diversidad de los campos que abarcó, se considera también uno de los primeros investigadores científicos dentro del concepto moderno del término. Puede afirmarse que sus ideas han influenciado el pensamiento intelectual en occidente...

In “De Anima”, Aristotle seeks to uncover what separates the living from the dead. He steers a course between two extremes, with all of reality as nothing more than atoms on one side and the mind as independent from the body on the other side. Ultimately, he invents a third kind of position that views mental phenomena to be thoroughly dependent on, though not reducible to, physical events.

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and a student of Plato. He taught Alexander the Great, and wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and...

The Poetics is much better known than the Rhetoric, though only the first book of the former, a treatment of epic and tragic poetry, survives. The book aims, among other things, to answer Plato's criticisms of representative art. A penetrating, near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear', and why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process....

Ziel dieses Werkes ist es, einen Leitfaden zu geben, um zu erlernen, wie man ein guter Mensch wird und wie man ein glückliches Leben führt. Da hierfür der Begriff des Handelns zentral ist, ist bereits im ersten Satz davon die Rede: "Jedes praktische Können und jede wissenschaftliche Untersuchung, ebenso alles Handeln und Wählen, strebt nach einem Gut, wie allgemein angenommen wird." Ein Gut kann dabei entweder nur dazu da sein, ein weiteres Gut...

We have already discussed the first causes of nature, and all natural motion, also the stars ordered in the motion of the heavens, and the physical element-enumerating and specifying them and showing how they change into one another-and becoming and perishing in general. There remains for consideration a part of this inquiry which all our predecessors called meteorology. It is concerned with events that are natural, though their order is less perfect...

The work "poetics" was created by Classical Greek polymath, known as the founder of classical logic, Aristotle (384-322 BC). Aristotle is the greatest of philosophers of the ancient world, whose authority was unshakeable in the Middle Ages too, when the church rejected all heritage of ancient Greece as a pagan one. In his philosophical conception there already were many elements of materialism.