Aristotle

Socratic irony. The pretence of ignorance. He pretends not to know, and asks people questions to demonstrate their ignorance. He forces them to give an account of things and reveals their ignorance. Socratic irony is in fact doubly ironic, because he did not know the answers either. The more one knows, the more one knows one doesn't know.

Milton referenced Plato in Paradise Lost with the Platan Tree in Paradise. The Platan tree is associated heavily with Adam and in context, Adam's closeness with God as contrasted with Eve and her lack of personal connection with her creator.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle classified animals based on their habitats and physical characteristics. He grouped animals into different categories such as land animals, water animals, and air animals. He also classified animals based on their blood composition, dividing them into red-blooded (mammals and birds) and bloodless (fish and insects).

Swedish Naturalist Carolus Linnaeus devised a system of grouping organisms into hierarchical categories according to their form and structure. Aristotle classified organisms into only two taxa - either plants or animals.

Aristotle was born in 384 B.C at Stagira on the Chalcidic Peninsula of Macedonia, in northern Greece. His father Nichomachus had been the court physician of the Macedonian king Amyntas III, father of Philip II and grandfather of Alexander the Great. Aristotle lost both his parents while still a child and was brought up by Proxenus, a friend of the family. As a doctor's son, Aristotle inherited a scientific tradition going back some 200 years. Because medicine was a traditional occupation handed down from father to son, Aristotle probably learnt the fundamentals of biological skill from his father, which he later displayed in his biological researches. Aristotle's own institute in Athens - "Lyceum" instructed students in history and medicine. At the age of seventeen, Aristotle travelled to Athens and joined Plato's Academy, where he studied assiduously. He impressed Plato with his original thinking and was described by him as being the "intelligent of the school". He remained there for twenty years, first as a student, then as teacher.

Aristotle recognized that musical modes could evoke different moods or emotions in the listener, and thus could be used for expressing different kinds of content or conveying particular messages. This understanding led to the development of particular modes and scales in music theory that were associated with specific emotional or dramatic contexts.

One key difference is that Miller's conception of tragedy often focuses on the struggles of ordinary individuals, while Aristotle's definition emphasizes tragic heroes of noble birth facing a downfall due to a fatal flaw. Miller's tragedies are often rooted in the social and moral conflicts of contemporary society, whereas Aristotle's view is more rooted in classical ideas of heroism and fate.

According to Aristotle, the tragic flaw, or "hamartia," is a character trait in a tragic hero that leads to their downfall. This flaw is often hubris, or excessive pride, which causes the hero to ignore warnings or make fatal mistakes. Aristotle believed that the audience should feel pity and fear for the hero as they suffer the consequences of their flaw.

When Aristotle says Form he doesn't mean it in the same way that Plato does. Plato is referring to Forms as Eidos - the essence of a thing (loosely). For Aristotle, it refers more to the physical appearance - indicating a substance - which for him is form imposed on some matter-

Aristotle did not discover the atom. The concept of the atom was first proposed by the ancient Greek philosopher Leucippus and his student Democritus around the 5th century BCE. Aristotle, who came after them, did not accept the idea of atoms and instead favored a different view of matter.

Great Greek philosophers had various perspectives on love. Plato believed in different types of love, such as Eros (romantic love) and Agape (universal love). Aristotle viewed love as a virtue that could lead to a virtuous life. Socrates emphasized the importance of self-knowledge and self-love as a foundation for loving others.

"Galileo was the first to really discredit Aristotle's laws. He did this by postulating that heavier objects would hit the ground at the same time as lighter objects, when dropped from the same height. He proved this with a famous demonstration where he dropped two balls of different weights from the leaning tower of Pisa. The balls hit the ground at the same time. Galileo also came up with the idea of inertia. Rather than take Aristotle's view that and object must have a force acting on it to keep moving, Galileo said that an object would move continuously in a straight line as long as no outside forces acted on it."

Proxenus raised Aristotle from when Aristotle was 10, up til Aristotle was 17.

Aristotle had two wives throughout his lifetime, Hermias's niece Pythias and Herpyllis of Stagira.

He said that everything was made of three elements of the universe: Fire, Water, And Earth. Everything was one of the three or a mixture of them. This knowledge lasted for nearly a thousand years in Greece and the Mediterrannean area, that was until they got better scientists, like Leonardo Da Vinci.

He invented the word child breather from the red cross. He used to breath children. His name isn't in the dictionary because some crocodile man ate the paper when they were making the first dictionary. Aristotle was named after a chair. The chair was called the chair but they made no reference from the astronought chair to his name because astronought ause they thought it was bad. Also he was the one who invented yogurt and cheese because his earliest invention was that he made a pig taller and with more hair to make a cow thats when the first cow came about and he wanted to do something with the milk so he made cheese and yogurt.

He studied aesthetics, algebra, analytics, anatomy, astronomy, biology, economics, ethics, geography, geometry, logic, philosophy, physics, poetry, politics, psychology, rhetoric, theology, and zoology just to name a few. But his most notable discoveries are those in physics and astronomy, such as his depiction of the universe and theories on time, movement and matter. In zoology, He was the first to distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates. He also classified animals into classes, such as mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians. In meteorology, he was the first to describe the water cycle, which is: evaporation, condensation and precipitation. And in algebra he added systemized logic to the process of solving equations.

Aristotle defined rhetoric as the art of identifying the most likely means of persuasion in any given situation, focusing on the three modes of persuasion: ethos (credibility), pathos (emotional appeal), and logos (logical reasoning). Aristotle emphasized the importance of understanding the audience and adapting arguments to effectively persuade them.

Aristotle's first wife was named Pythias.

Socrates was critical of democracy, as he believed it could lead to rule by the unqualified majority. Plato was also critical of democracy, preferring a philosopher-king ruling society in his ideal Republic. Aristotle had a more nuanced view, seeing democracy as a potentially good system if structured correctly to prevent mob rule and uphold the rule of law.

Aristotle is the author of the famous book "Politics."

One that was ruled by a strong and virtuous leader

Socrates two main ideas were that harm can only come upon a person if they lose their integrity and that nobody knowingly does harm, creating the notion that ignorance leads to evil. He was the philosopher who basically created interrogation tactics to try and understand the world.

Plato, the student of Socrates, agreed with these notions but took them farther saying that knowledge = virtue. He also created the first college which he called the Academy (where this name originally came from) and said that math is of the utmost value and that it explains the natural world. He also created the theory of forms.

Aristotle, the pupil of Plato, stated that observation combined with experience explain the world, and should be used as the approach before abstract thinking. He also mapped out the most basic fields of inquiry.

On Aristotle second wife called Herpyllis he had a son named Nicomachus named after Aristotle's dad