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    The Truth seeker – Aristotle The famous Harvard School Motto is: Let Plato be your friend‚ and Aristotle‚ but more let your friend be Truth. At the early stage of the human civilization‚ there were many intelligent people that had achievements in all kinds of fields. When people were using mysticism to explain things‚ Aristotle was seeking the truth‚ and he did. It changed our sight of seeing the world now. Aristotle was born in 384 BCE. When he was seventeen‚ he came to Athens- the culture’s capital

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    Aristotle vs. Copernicus Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist‚ who shared with Plato the distinction of being the most famous of ancient philosophers. Aristotle was born at Stagira‚ in Macedonia‚ the son of a physician to the royal court. At the age of 17‚ he went to Athens to study at Plato’s Academy. He remained there for about 20 years‚ as a student and then as a teacher. When Plato died in 347 bc ‚ Aristotle moved to Assos‚ a city in Asia Minor‚ where a friend of his‚ Hermias (d

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    10/19/13 Plato: Certainty and Human Nature Plato was born in 427 BCE in Athens‚ Greece. He devoted his life to philosophy after the death of his mentor‚ Socrates at the hands of the Athenian court. He‚ most notably‚ was the first philosopher to develop ideas of human nature‚ knowledge‚ and metaphysics‚ and argued for the existence of the soul. Furthermore‚ he believed that there was distinction between changing physical objects and the unchanging‚ perfect ideals of the mind‚ and that the mortal

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    Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης‚ Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC)[1] was a Greekphilosopher and polymath‚ a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects‚ including physics‚ metaphysics‚ poetry‚ theater‚ music‚logic‚ rhetoric‚ linguistics‚ politics‚ government‚ ethics‚ biology‚ and zoology. Together withPlato and Socrates (Plato’s teacher)‚ Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle’s writings were the first

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    Contributions It is believed that Plato‚ a student of Socrates‚ was one of the greatest contributors of philosophy. Proof of Plato ’s notoriety in the world of philosophy can be clearly seen with his dialogues and his renowned student Aristotle. Plato’s writings are in the form of dialogues‚ with Socrates as the principal speaker. With his theory of Forms‚ he had discussed a wide range of metaphysical and ethical questions while finding inherent connections between the two. Plato also considered epistemological

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    Aristotle (384 BC – March 7‚ 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and a student of Plato‚ considered first scientist in Western world. He was a philosopher of common sense. He tried to define essences and his aim is to explicate the world as well as cosmos surrounding us. According to Introduction of Metaphysics‚ Aristotle’s world-view is teleological that there is kind of purpose in cosmos: " What is important is that the world seems to have a purpose‚ a meaning and even a design. It

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    1. a) Explain how Plato’s epistemological assumptions shape his metaphysics (Why does he think that there must be Forms? Hint: Plato says (in effect): “Since knowledge is certain‚ therefore the objects of knowledge must be unchanging.”). b) Define Plato’s Forms and present the theory of Forms by explaining the “divided line.” (You can use the visual image‚ but explain it.) Plato was extremely devoted in answering the sophists’ skepticism about reason and morality. To do so‚ he spent more

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    Metaphysics has been given many definitions over the years‚ Aristotle says that it is the science of being as being‚ or the study of everything that can be. Another definition given to metaphysics is the science of the most universal conceptions. My personal favorite would be metaphysics is the science of the most abstract conceptions. This‚ to me‚ is saying that metaphysics is the study of ideas real physics does not solve‚ things that cannot be measured by a gauge. Aristotle also said "The first

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    Phi 350 Metaphysics

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    Phi 350: Metaphysics Instructions Please write a 1250-1500 word essay in response to the prompt stated below. In writing this essay‚ you should use the textbook and classroom discussion as your foundation. You should not try to summarize the reading assignments in turn‚ but only those parts that are relevant to dealing with the prompt and for setting up and helping to explain the critical remarks in your paper. In this paper you should have your own thesis to defend about the question identified

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    As we delve deeper into Kant’s Metaphysics we begin to get a comprehension of how Kant believes that knowledge of the world can be possible. In this essay‚ I hope to explain clearly the way Kant believes that to be able to understand the world‚ humans’ project certain rules and regulation that objects must conform to so that they can be understood. I also intend to explain that it is through these rules and regulations that we will see two forms of human understanding that will appear with three

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