Aristotle was an important Greek philosopher from the Socratic period and one of the most important founding figures in Western Philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of philosophy, which included Logic, Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, Metaphysics, Logic and Science. Aristotle was very concerned with science and the natural world. Some of his major works were the syllogism, the categories, the 4 causes and his work in the field of natural science. The purpose of the essay…
Aristotle defined virtue as achieving excellence through fulfillment of a certain function. He stated that people are born with the opportunity to have virtues but they must act accordingly throughout their function. Any function that is good and well must possess some sort of end objective which is what a person is in search of, and it’s through the activity of the soul that a function may achieve what it is searching for. Aristotle believes that anything that can move has a soul, which…
it is an animated musical film produced by Walt Disney. The Lion King demonstrated Aristotle two principles: symbolism and theme. The movie, The Lion King begins with the symbol of the sun rising. “The sun represents a never-deviating pattern of death and rebirth through its daily rising and setting, an eternal constant that embodies the Circle of Life” ("Themes and Symbols in Lion King"). According to Aristotle, a literary symbol means…
Plato vs. Aristotle—A conflict of “Ethic” proportions Plato and Aristotle are arguably two of the greatest philosophers to ever live. Though each philosopher has his own, separate ideas, both Plato and Aristotle make valid points about their own theory of ethics and their methods of reasoning. Both philosophers created works that have influenced some of the worlds most popular enlightenment thinkers like Hobbes and Nietzche as well as ground breaking scientists such as Copernicus and Galileo.…
rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but is a habit.” –Aristotle. In this quote, Aristotle is describing what it takes to be at the top at what you’re doing, similar as to what he did in almost every subject he studied. An attitude similar to the one he portrayed in the quote above is the reason Aristotle is renowned to be the most intelligent individual to ever step foot on our planet. He made groundbreaking discoveries…
Politics, Aristotle lays out two major tenets of a true, healthy, democratic regime. The first is that members of a healthy polity must understand being ruled and then ruling in turn. Within this overarching assumption there is the idea that each citizen should have an equal share, as well as the belief that the poor have more authority as they are a larger population in the polity. The second is that each member of a healthy democracy, polity, should have the ability to live as one wants.…
had and is being discussed by philosophers is the idea of what is good and how we should live. Two of these philosophers are Aristotle and Augustine, and each of them have similar but very different ideas of what is good for humankind. In this essay, the two philosophers’ thoughts will be discussed as well as which is most clear and practical for the use of man. Aristotle was a Grecian philosopher from 384-322 B.C.E. who was a student of Plato and the author of Nicomachean Ethics. He argues…
call yours and only yours. Some of the greatest thinkers in the world would say otherwise. Plato said that owning things is detrimental to ones character. Aristotle said it would help to develop ones character. One twenty-first century thinker, Jean-Paul, said ownership extends beyond objects and intangible goods. Jean-Paul, Plato, and Aristotle, all great philosophers, and all have different views on owning objects, I believe that all are correct to a certain point. Plato said that owning…
comes from universal objects of knowledge and we see these universals shared in individual particulars. In this paper I will explain Aristotle’s theory of categories and show some of the differences between it and Plato’s theory of the Forms. Aristotle argues that there are ten categories, the first of these being substance. There are primary and secondary substances and are…
person should I be? “We are not concerned to know what goodness is but how to become good people” told Aristotle who played a part in the development of Virtue Ethics. At the centre of Virtue Ethics are virtues and vices, we should aim for the virtues and avoid the vices which can be deficiency or excess. By doing virtuous acts we acquires these virtues in the same way that we…