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Aristotle
The Greek philosopher and teacher who formulated the basis for much of today's modern science. This category is designed to collect questions about his life, methods, and discoveries.
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Classification of government according to Aristotle?
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According to Aristotle, there are three main types of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and polity. Monarchy is a rule by a single individual, aristocracy is rule by a few elite individuals, and polity is rule by the many, or the common people. Aristotle also recognized that each of these forms of government can devolve into a corrupt or unjust version: tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy, respectively.
Aristotle classified government into all what categories except?
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Aristotle classified government into three main categories: monarchy (rule by one), aristocracy (rule by the few), and polity (rule by many). He did not include tyranny as a separate category, but viewed it as a corrupt form of monarchy or rule by one.
Aristotle divided living organisms into two categories?
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Aristotle initially divided living organisms only into two groups which are plants and animals. The system was not proven to be good because there were too many species of plants and animals. However, the system was used for 2000 until the time of Linnaeus.
How can plants be classified basing on their differences of Aristotle?
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The characteristics are seeds, if they have a vascular tissue and if they have flowers or not. Hope this is helpful!
Did Aristotle write any books?
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Yes, but, unfortunately, all his books have been lost. What we have are lecture notes compiled by his students. They are, however, complete enough that many rank Aristotle as being one of the greatest western philosophers (along with Plato, who was his teacher).
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What is a famous Aristotle quote about the poetics?
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. " -Aristotle
What were the names of Aristotle's books?
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The book which contains Aristotle's works is called the Corpus Aristotelicum. These are the surviving works that haven't been lost.
Why did Aristotle called the father of literary criticism?
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Samuel Jonson (Dictionary Jonson)
What are Early Greeks such as Aristotle though all matter was made of which four elements?
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What Instead of banning certain modes altogether Aristotle recognized that modes could be used for different reasons. How did Aristotle think the modes should be used?
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Each mode expressed a certain feeling and each mode had its place. -apex
Why were the Platonic Socrates and Aristotle suspicious of orators in their day?
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The orators claimed to be wise (sophos in Greek), but they specialized in using rhetorical (verbal) tricks to win any argument. When someone asked Aristotle if he considered himself a wise person (sophist) he said he wasn't sure, but he had always been a lover (philos=love) of wisdom - a philosophos. Socrates went even further, after a famous oracle (priestess) declared that he was the wisest man in Athens he denied that he possessed any wisdom at all (which is called Socratic ignorance). He began searching for someone wiser than himself by asking everyone he met questions about things he himself was unsure of. Many people thought they knew the answers to Socrates' questions. Rather than directly arguing with them (as the sophists did), Socrates would respond with more questions, exposing flaws in their reasoning (this came to be called the Socratic Method). When no one could successfully answer his questions, he concluded that the oracle had been right because while the other Athenians had believed they were wise when they were not, Socrates had always known that he did not know and this was his only wisdom (philosophers call that Socratic irony).
What is an explanation of the nature of something as thinkers such as Plato Aristotle and Socrates would have taught?
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"Nature" here means ways of classifying things.
For example, questions philosophers such as Aristotle, Plato and Socrates might ask are:
- Is this a person or thing? Is this person-thing living or not living?
- What makes something be living?
- Is a tree a living item or not? If a tree is living, is the leaf on the ground that came from the tree also living when separated from the tree? What is the nature of the tree and its leaf?
- If a tree is living, and we cut it down and make a table of it, what is the nature of this table? If it came from living matter, is the table's wood still living matter?
Great Philosophers began to study Nature (here, meaning, woodlands, trees, leaves, plants) and try to classify things, not only based on type, size, shape, but to explore with their thinking just what defines humans as humans, animals as animals, nature (the scenery around us) as nature, and objects as things.
They began to explore the "nature of...." (everything). What is IT? If IT is described as A, B, C, D, then what about this other IT that seems different from the first IT we studied? What makes a living tree and attached leaves be the same but also different from a felled tree on the ground on top of leaf litter that fell in autumn? These ideas were the beginnings of recognizing the smallest pieces of life: molecules and atoms.
They also studied abstract concepts, things they could see but that needed defined. For example: motion. They saw the wind blow the leaf-- is the wind also a living being? How is something moved, when is it moved, how is it moved? These ponderings helped construct the beginnings of the subject of physics.
The nature of something is classifying it not only by what we see but how it (or a person) functions and behaves, thinks and feels, does (and does not do). The leaf "dances" on the wind as if a living entity, yet it differs from a living human being who also twirls and dances as if he or she is the leaf carried upon the wind!
The levels of classifying humans or things can be as endless as the human or object we are studying, depending how far "in" to the item or person we're studying. As 2 examples, you could classify a person by:
- Living, human, female, mature (of an age to reproduce), age of (number), married or single (or widow); then you could classify her by what she does (her task functions) like bears children, takes care of children, cooks, cleans, washes clothing, makes things (baskets and tools), then you could classify her by how she seems, like freely shows emotions, cries more than "a living human male", etc.; in today's societies, you could classify her by her jobs or occupation(s) or career(s); the list can go on and on... OR
- Living, tree, young (sapling), short, thin, wiry stalk, easily bendable, easily snapped under force, shallow root system, soft green pine needles (not leaves), seeds easily scattered; many of its kind grow in certain types of soil often near a large pine tree; functions--no shade; it gives no wood at this stage; its seeds can survive fire and grow the next season; when does it grow? where does it grow? what does it give to animals and humans? Etc.
The "nature of something" also contains some mysteries, the things we ASK ourselves about, but do not yet know the answers!
