PHIL1010:901 Introduction to Logic 20111:1 “What did Aristotle contribute to the discipline of Logic?” Aristotle was a Greek philosopher that lived from 384 BC to 322 BC. Aristotle was born in Stagira in northern Greece and he was the son of Nichomachus. In 367 he was sent to Athens to study philosophy with a great Greek philosopher named Plato. Some years later he traveled to Macedonia to tutor Alexander the Great. Aristotle returned to Athens and set up a school of his own following his success
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Christianity Defying Racial Oppression Christianity has worked its way through history making its imprint on all of society up until this very day. Some of the most influential Christians have set a particular focus on an array of beliefs‚ making it difficult to pinpoint the characteristics and attitudes of a perfect Christian. Being the perfect Christian was sought to be the epitome of happiness and greatest achievement. Important Christian philosophers had views that varied from law‚ social division
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ethics essay Plato/Aristotle/Existentialists By Amy Maddox Socrates said‚ “No one ever actually chooses evil‚ they only mistake it for good.” I do not agree with this theory. For Socrates‚ the key to a virtuous life was knowledge of the GOOD. He believed‚ if one knew the Good one would choose it. One always chooses the best of the options available. The question is what is the Good? He would say‚ evil is the result of ignorance
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Thomas Aquinas: The Conflict‚ the Harmony and the Saint During the High Middle Ages‚ Western Europe underwent rigorous reform. Through the rapidly increasing population and production of intellectual‚ artistic and spiritual works‚ thirteenth century philosophers‚ theologians and Christian thinkers were faced with a quandary. The central question was directed at “the attitude being taken toward Aristotle…by theologians committed to a Christian view of the nature of God‚ man‚ and the universe” (“St
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Aristotle vs. Plato I believe Aristotle and Plato are both great thinkers. Aristotle and Plato both give good evidence to what they believe. There are some things that Plato says that I may or may not agree on‚ and same goes with Aristotle. In this essay I am going to prove why Aristotle and Plato both have an influence upon my thinking. In order for me to prove that I must understand Plato’s thinking‚ and Aristotle’s thinking. I am going to analyze their different philosophical perspectives such
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philosophy that have been as influential as the ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. Aristotle was even a student of Plato’s‚ having studied under him for over 20 years. However‚ both men still held opposing views when it came to certain views about how the state should be ruled. One such view was on the ability to own private property and the ability to rule. Plato’s‚ The Republic and Aristotle’s‚ the Politics of Aristotle illustrates both philosophers’ ideal states of regime. It is also where
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Compare and contrast Plato and Aristotle on well-being. Well-Being: The state of being healthy happy or prosperous. It seems obvious to suggest that the goal we all are aiming at is total happiness; total success and fulfillment. In the Nichomachean ethics‚ Aristotles’ main aim is to provide a description of what this so-called happiness actually is‚ and how we can go about our day to day lives in order to achieve the best life that we possibly can. He begins book one with what philosophers call
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the right way‚ so the outcome is bad. What we call evil is actually just a corruption of good. God created everything with a good intention‚ so everything God created is actually good. Augustine approaches the idea of evil by saying that‚ “evil had no being on its own but is only an absence of good” (44). Augustine explains this reasoning with the example of him stealing the pears. When Augustine stole the pears‚ he did not actually need them. He already had plenty of pears‚ so he did not steal them
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After reading Aquinas’s “The Five Ways” I found that his second way‚ the argument of causation‚ is the most fitting to Descartes belief about the existence of god. In my opinion‚ this argument holds the most truth because it supports what Descartes speaks upon in is third meditation. Descartes states that he himself could not have invented the idea of god. He then raises the question of what within himself allows him to believe that there is a god. Descartes cannot recall when the idea of a god first
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light than our own vain-striving presumptions that claim that our "competent utterances" hold the very answers to the "right" way in which to conduct oneself. Montaigne constantly uses the contrast of animals and humans with the former representing a more pure‚ natural existence that I assume is to be more highly regarded because of it ’s proximity to the "original" way in which we were created by God. I think that Montaigne held in contempt his contemporaries and particular predecessors who he
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