Aristotle Research Paper

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Aristotle was born in Macedonia and was an Ancient Greek philosopher who made significant contributions on theater, biology, physics, mathematics, metaphysics, logic, agriculture, dance and medicine (Kant 87). He was one of the students of Plato and further took Socrates studies. In comparison to Socrates and Plato, Aristotle was more empirical minded and composed, in such a way that he rejected theories that were proposed by Plato. Aristotle transformed people as polymath and prolific writers as a result of the different concepts of knowledge he argued. Due to his wide knowledge and application of different concepts Aquinas refereed Aristotle as the Philosopher (Kant 88). Aristotle also wrote more than two hundred treatises where by only thirty …show more content…

He established that the validity of different arguments can only be enhanced by the structure more than the content of the arguments. A significant example in this case include his syllogism whereby mortal defines men hence Socrates can be defined as mortal and a man. Provided with this argument, the premises are honest then the conclusion is also supposed to be true (Kant 89). Therefore, I love Aristotle works because he further puts on emphasis that good and effective reasoning can be linked with his believed in different scientific forms and methods of his work. For instance in his politics and ethics work Aristotle distinguishes the effective aspect in different intellectual virtue meaning that a moral being is in a position to enhance specific virtues that are based on certain reasoning. On the other hand, his work on the soul and psychology he identified reasoning from the sense of perception which interprets and unifies the perception senses and an effective knowledge source. These are some of examples of knowledge concepts that were developed by Aristotle. The following reflection paper will focus on the two subjects that were included by Aristotle and include logic and …show more content…

The main notion is that forms are not the main reasons of alteration and movement in a sensation objects instead, forms are incompetent to indicate how knowledge of a certain aspect is gained. Therefore if forms are required to illustrate the extent of our knowledge on certain aspect then the same forms are supposed to be utilized to explain our capabilities of knowledge on specific objects and arts. Finally, I agree with Aristotle argument that of all substances God appears to be the first and a source of movement who is not unmoved therefore God is described as everlasting.
Aristotle logic works indicates his view point on the human knowledge concerning the world. His concepts have been accepted by the western philosophers since the logic encompasses an instrument that brings the knowledge (Rijen 67). On the other hand, Aristotle work reflects the nature of truth or propositions falsity about the present and past events. This implies that if the preposition of tomorrow is false or true then the future proposition becomes a

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