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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, famous for his prolific writings on a vast array of subjects, including logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and even the natural sciences. He is widely considered a "founding figure" in Western philosophy.

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What is the fundamental difference of these two Aristotle books given their confusion non-modern titles?

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy Aristotelian "physics" is different from what we mean today by this word, not only to the extent that it belongs to antiquity ...

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asked Sep 27 at 22:19

Aristotle quote on slaves believing they are slaves?

Years ago I read a quote attributed to Aristotle: The remarkable thing about slavery is that slaves believe they are slaves. What was the actual quote?

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asked Sep 25 at 18:57

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Can a final cause also be an efficient cause?

Aristotle distinguishes between four causes: material, efficient, formal and final. However, his use of 'cause' is different than our use. Our use of 'cause' is just the efficient cause, thing A ...

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asked Sep 25 at 17:08

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Does modern physics contradict Aristotelean substances?

In Aristotle's philosophy, physical objects have a substance and accidents. A substance is what the object "really is" and the accidents are things that can change without changing the ...

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asked Sep 25 at 16:55

How do essentialists deal with fuzzy essential properties?

I've been reading a collection of essays on neo-Aristotelianism where they endorse the concept of essential properties. An essential property is an ontological concept, not a conceptual concept. The ...

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asked Sep 11 at 17:55

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Ancient Greek definition of Arete/excellence

I've been trying to find encyclopedia entries about this but it feels like they somewhat ambiguous or don't do the word justice. I was wondering whether Arete refers only to moral/philosophical ...

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asked Sep 5 at 23:53

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What does Plato think about blindness and knowledge?

Does Plato though similar to that of Aristotle about blindness? Does he think blindness and memory and knowledge are linked? What kind of knowledge? If not, why? How blindness is used in Plato's work ...

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asked Sep 1 at 16:43

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What does Aristotle think about the relation between blindness, knowledge and memory?

I'm trying to understand Aristotle's views on blindness, as given in these passages: "just as the blind remember better, being released from having their faculty of memory engaged with objects ...

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asked Sep 1 at 15:58

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How to understand Prime matter?

In the Aristotle-Aquinas tradition prime matter is the thing that underlies all other things in the world. It is described as completely indeterminate-pure potentiality, it was not created and cannot ...

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asked Aug 18 at 7:10

According to e.g. Tolstoy, is happiness solely down to us?

Aristotle's reply is that one's virtuous activity will be to some extent diminished or defective, if one lacks an adequate supply of other goods (1153b17–19). Someone who is friendless, childless, ...

asked Jul 30 at 11:42

Is it possible to do the right thing in the "wrong way"?

Definitions. Let the initial "objects" of moral judgment be moral problems. I don't want to say practical problems insofar as instrumental reasoning can be seen as solving practical problems ...

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asked Jul 23 at 1:00

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Aristotle Categories Chapter 2

What exactly is meant by predication and "in a subject"? I have watched 2 lectures and from what I gathered, predication is "what is being said of a subject" and in a subject is &...

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asked Jun 8 at 0:18

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How does the cited passage of Aristotle imply that what exists sempiternally cannot age?

This article from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy indicates Aristotle's position as "what exists sempiternally cannot age. (Physics 221b30)" The Hussey translation of the cited ...

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asked Jun 3 at 17:39

Why can't Aristotelian logic account for deductions which rely on propositional logic, or express relationships between two or more objects?

This is a summary from absurdbeing.com: Unfortunately, as mentioned, Aristotle's system of logic (based entirely on the deductive syllogism) was incomplete in at least three ways: first, it didn't ...

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asked May 18 at 11:43

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What does MacIntyre mean by Aristotle's "metaphysical biology"?

In After Virtue, Alisdair MacIntyre often refers to Aristotle's "metaphysical biology" with disapproval. What exactly does he mean by this? I assume it is more specific than Aristotle's ...

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asked Apr 25 at 17:18

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