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Aristotle simply means that, when preparing a speech, it's important to bear in mind your target audience, the people who are actually going to hear you speak. This is a very important...
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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived from 384–322 BC. Along with Plato, he is considered the “Father of Western Philosophy.” He founded the Lyceum and made significant contributions to the...
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Aristotle discusses the four causes (Greek: aitia) in the Physics and Metaphysics. These are the four types of explanation concerning why and, to a degree, how objects come into being. This theory...
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There are many ways to appeal to an audience when giving an argument or a persuasive speech. Aristotle outlined three of these appeals, which he called logos, ethos, and pathos. The best arguments...
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Both of Aristotle’s treatises on Ethics, the Eudemian Ethics and the Nicomachaen Ethics, begin with a discussion of happiness, which Aristotle regards as the supreme good, since it is an end in...
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In very basic terms, "primary substance" refers to individual things, whether they're individual human beings, dogs, cats, trees, rocks, or anything else. Primary substances are specific things...
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Aristotle calls the things he considers to be the most real "substances". Substances are the things that the universe is made out of. Today, western science teaches that subatomic particles make up...
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This question has stimulated a good deal of philosophical debate among scholars down the centuries. Nevertheless, the general consensus seems to be that Aristotle believed that the intellect was...
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Realism claims that the physical world exists outside of one’s own perception. Think about the words you are reading on this page. The page is filled with lines that your mind then recognizes as...
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Aristotle examined several different ethical values to discuss their merit as well as how to uphold them properly. He analyzes these virtues and states that he believes they arise from both our...
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In undertaking any given action, human beings aim at some good. This good may either be instrumental or non-instrumental. Instrumental goods may serve non-instrumental ends. For example, if I go...
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Aristotle is considered one of the most important contributors to metaphysics and his work on the topic, oddly enough titled "metaphysics" is still considered perhaps the most important work on the...
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Aristotle emphasizes that the very best life is a life of eudaimonia, or happiness. Aristotle reasons that the kind of happiness that he is referring to is good and desirable without being...
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Aristotle is renowned for various works including his Nicomachean Ethics. In studying the basis of what makes a person strive towards his or her goals, Aristotle maintains that performing "good"...
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Examples of primary substances are animals, apples, trees, and mountains. Secondary matter is comparable to form. This is to say that secondary matter is "said of" or "inhering in" a primary...
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Aristotle's Poetics has certainly been very influential in many ways. It not only perfectly defines a tragedy, other authors have used his definitions as a model ever since. Since we are limited to...
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To examine Aristotle’s notions of justice, you should read Aristotle’s Politics, Rhetoric, and Nicomachean Ethics, which are the main works in which he discusses the subject. The Poetics and On the...
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One significant difference is that Plato separates pleasure from the good. He argues that both the coward can feel just as much pleasure from his cowardly acts as the hero can from his heroic...
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An emotional appeal is a type of persuasion identified by Aristotle that tries to convince an audience by provoking an emotional response. Aristotle referred to emotional appeals as "pathos," which...
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In Aristotle's Poetics, he says: Those who employ spectacular means to create a sense not of the terrible but only of the monstrous, are strangers to the purpose of Tragedy; for we must not demand...
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The first thing to realize is that, in Greek, a thing's excellence (arētē) and the good (to agathon) are closely linked in meaning. However, in his function argument (Nicomachean Ethics Book I,...
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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher. He was mentored by Plato and went on to become the mentor and tutor of Alexander the Great. His philosophical foundations draw upon a variety of sources including...
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Aristotle argues that the supreme good for man is happiness. His rationalization is that the supreme good will also be the highest end, the end we pursue only for its own sake. To arrive at the...
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Aristotle considers the soul to be the principle of life, which means that he holds that all living things have souls, not just human beings. His main work on psychology is called “De Anima,” which...
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One problem with trying to understand Aristotle's theory of "reality" is that the modern term does not necessarily correspond to any specific concept or word found in Aristotle. In fact, the...
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See http://www.enotes.com/aristotle/q-and-a/what-according-you-aristotles-views-mimesis-305660
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Aristotle ties truth to wisdom and knowledge and examines it as a part of metaphysics. The treatise Metaphysics lays his arguments forth. Aristotle's epistemology contends that finding knowledge...
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Although Aristotle did not really use the modern scientific method, his methods did set the stage for full-fledged science later on. Aristotle was organized in his approach to science. He would...
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According to Wikipedia.com, hamartia is a term that was developed by Aristotle and: ...can simply be seen as a character’s flaw or error...hamartia is the tragic flaw of the protagonist in a given...
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Catharsis refers to a purging of emotions, purification and sometimes a renewal resulting from pity, sorrow, sympathy or even laughter. Catharsis applies to the experience of a character or the...
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This is a great question. Aristotle seems to have used the idea of catharsis in two ways. First, in his medical writing, he used the word in a bodily sense, when there is a discharge of fluids from...
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Excellent question! First, definitions are in order: Artificial selection, sometimes called "selective breeding," is the process of manipulating genetics to bring out qualities that the breeders...
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Aristotle, judging by his writings, was extremely interested in contemplating the nature of man, that most intractable of subjects. Man’s role in society and the motivations that drive him to act...
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Aristotle believed in the idea that there was nothing that was inherently good and nothing that was inherently bad. He believed that everything was good if it was done to the right degree. By...
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Aristotle divided animals into "those without blood" and "those with blood," a dichotomy that roughly corresponds to the modern classifications of vertebrates and invertebrates. He divided animals...
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It is important to start with Plato to answer this question. By far Plato's negative view of imitation (mimesis) is more common than Aristotle's view. Plato believed that imitation was bad, because...
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A catharsis is an outpouring of emotion. Tragedy is when there is so much emotion that it cannot be contained, and must be expressed. There is also a truth that comes with the catharsis, an...
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"Sleep-test ethics" refers to a concept of ethical evaluation that is based on one's personal instincts, which could also be called one's "gut feelings" or "moral compass." The idea is that if...
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Aristotle, as did and have many others, defined “virtue” as “excellence” in whatever activity in which one is engaged (a concept that Machiavelli would later refine in a more ruthless context)....
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The golden mean is an idea from Aristotle. It is what we should all aspire to in our attempts to act properly. To Aristotle, all things can be good or bad. If they are done too little, they are...
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In Metaphysics, Aristotle lays out his four causes as answers to "why" questions. In other words, if we were to ask why something is as it is, we would want to answer it with respect to the...
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Any discussion of Aristotle and his Nicomachean Ethics needs to be acknowledged as occurring within a particular legal and social framework within which his essentially democratic thoughts are...
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Aristotle, like most thinkers of his period, divides thinking about morality into three categories. Moral actions with respect to the city-state (polis) as a whole, or politics Moral actions with...
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The major difficulty in answering this question has to do with defining liberal. The term is thrown around somewhat at random in U.S. politics, and means something quite different than classical...
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Aristotle was one of the great philosophers of antiquity, due in no little part to the broad scope of his writing. He wrote treatises on physics, metaphysics, politics, rhetoric, ethics, poetics,...
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Aristotle wrote his "Poetics" fifty years after the death of Sophocles, and he was a great admirer of both Sophocles and his great tragedy, "Oedipus Rex." In "Poetics," Aristotle discusses tragedy...
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I assume that by "second life" you mean life after death. If so, there are quite a few different Christian beliefs on this subject. I would say that all Christian beliefs include the idea that...
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In Aristotle, different types of knowledge are possible concerning different types of subject matter. True knowledge, or episteme, is only possible with respect to unchanging scientific or...
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The best answer to this question is B. Eudaimonia is something that all people should want to seek. This is because eudaimonia is the highest good that Aristotle can imagine. Aristotle used the...
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I would like to see this moved to the Literature Discussion Forum so we can hear other peoples' interpretations of Aristotle's comment. To me, Aristotle is adopting a somewhat cynical attitude,...