Aristotle on the Soul Aristotle’s notion differs from the usual conception of a soul as some sort of substance occupying the body‚ existing separately and eternally. To him‚ the soul is the essence of a living thing. The soul is what makes an organism an organism at all by actualizing its potential for life‚ and it’s constituted by its capacity for activities essential to that specific type of being. His investigation into the nature of the soul demonstrates basic principles of his philosophical
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NIGERIA NSUKKA TOPIC THE CATEGORIES OF ARISTOTLE COURSE INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS 1 NAME MABKWE NICHOLAS CHUKWUNWEIKE REG. NO 09/UN/SI/A/0826 LECTURER REV. FR. DR. B. ABANUKA C.S.Sp. DATE JANUARY 2011 INTRODUCTION Aristotle (384-322BC) is one of the most influential philosophers of the western tradition and had many philosophical works credited to him. In his treatise on logic collectively known as “Organon”‚ Aristotle gave two preliminary treatises; “The Categories
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Kant and Hinduism (observed in the Bhagavad-Gita) There are many similarities between the analyses of religious works of Hinduism (the Gita being used in this case) and the philosophical work of Kant‚ or even Buddhism and Hume for that matter. Both argue from similar premises about personal identity and share similar conclusions about human action. Their metaphysical models are similar‚ as are their rules of logic‚ and some feelings towards one’s duty. They make their claims from different
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Aristotle‚ in his Politics‚ states "the relation of male to female is naturally that of the superior to the inferior-- of the ruling to the ruled" because the male possesses "the rational ... element"; the female "the irrational ... element". Using the stories‚ Eratosthenes and Diogeiton‚ I will prove whether if Aristotle was correct on his point that women are irrational element and men are rational. I think in Eratosthenes‚ Eratosthenes was irrational to have affairs and Euphiletus was inferior
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Kant was part of enlightenment period Morality is entirely determined by what someone wills because a good will is the only thing that is good with out provocations. Every other character trait is only morally good once we qualify it as such. Kant morality is all about what someone wills and not about the end result or consequence is. Someone can be happy but for immoral reasons. Kant it is really the thought that counts. Motivation is everything. What does Bentham and Mills look at consequences
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HYPERLINK "http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/kant.htm" Immanuel Kant answers the question in the first sentence of the essay: “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.” He argues that the immaturity is self-inflicted not from a lack of understanding‚ but from the lack of courage to use one’s reason‚ intellect‚ and wisdom without the guidance of another. He exclaims that the motto of enlightenment is “Sapere aude”! – Dare to be wise! The German word Unmündigkeit means not
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Antigone Life has a way of becoming complicated. Problems between friends‚ foes‚ and even family members develop everyday for people of all walks of life. It is part of human nature to disagree‚ cause conflict and fight for what we believe in even if that means stepping on someone else’s toes along the way. Aristotle had thoughts on complication dating back to 335 B.C when he wrote Poetics- the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory. In it he analyzed tragedies and theorized that every tragedy
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thought. Many thinkers have pondered reason‚ and the various views on the nature of reason may not be compatible with one another.(Mesquita‚ 1992) Reason is sometimes narrowly defined as the faculty or process of drawing logical inferences. From Aristotle onwards‚ such reasoning has been classified as either deductive reasoning‚ meaning "from the general to the particular"‚ or inductive reasoning‚ meaning "from the particular to the general". In the 19th century‚ Charles Peirce‚ an American philosopher
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justice was concerned with an internal equality between the members of the classes present within the polis. This focused more on individualism in that one must only be concerned with his/her business and not minding other’s problems. The justice that occurs in their society depends on the class to whom one belongs. However‚ Aristotle‚ his student‚ was more for all-encompassing justice aiming for the ultimate goal of the constitution. Equality‚ for Aristotle‚ depends on the constitution in which the society
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Aristotle ( 384-322 B.C.) was a Greek philosopher and political scientist born in Stagira‚ Greece‚ who focused mainly on politics and made significant contributions to various fields of knowledge such as ethics‚ biology‚ and politics. Many of his opinions and thoughts regarding politics are expressed throughout his work the Politics‚ Book I from 350 B.C. Unlike Aristotle‚ Kongzi (551 - 479 B.C.) was an ancient Chinese politician. He introduced Confucius‚ a teaching that was built to establish the
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