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In this paper, I will argue that Aristotle view of the 4 kinds of people are accurate. These 4 kinds of people are the virtuous, strong-willed, vicious, and weak-willed. First, I will set out Aristotle’s argument about a strong-willed person who struggles to overcome desires, and does it make them morally wrong. Next, I will show the 4 kinds of persons that Aristotle believes exist, they are the virtuous, strong-willed, weak-willed, and the vicious persons and his arguments concerning them. Finally, I will set out my own position to support Aristotle’s view.

With this in mind, we can say that the third premise, which states that if something exists now, then something has always existed, is valid. After all, if something exists now, there must have been something to cause it or nothing would exist.

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He began to study and collect sea creatures, and eventually extend his ideas to study sea animal to all living things. He created the first library in Greece, which attracted an impressive amount of scholars to the school he taught at called the Lyceum. Students were able to learn every subject imaginable at the time. Aristotle was credited with being the first thinker to recognize that knowledge is compartmentalized. The school was the center for teaching scientific reasoning and scientific research. Aristotle’s theories, at the time were revolutionary, but were later corrected. In his time he was known as “the man who knew everything.” Aristotle’s influence from his time and even after his death, are considered unparalleled, with the exception of his teacher, Plato his works continue to endure. His writings about how people perceived the world continues to underline many principles, and the knowledge people possessed, because of him people around the world share to solve problems.

Aristotle was an ancient Greek scientist and philosopher who sought the answer to our existence and the truth of reality. Aristotle was a pupil of Plato, a Greek philosopher who was famous for his theory of forms, but following his (Plato’s) death, he changed his views from Platonism to empiricism. Where Plato thought that true reality was based in what was abstract and intangible, Aristotle instead thought of

He was the first to study formal logic, founded called the Lyceum and tutored kings. He influenced Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions and beliefs. The Catholic Church took his view of a universal hierarchy and added the divine, the heavenly and the demonic to make their “Great Chain of Being.” Aristotle even had a basic idea of evolution based on God’s plan for the world (IEP). It is possible that he was the last person to know everything there was to know in his own time (Neill 488). His contributions to our understanding of the world are innumerable, despite that only about a third of his work survived. He contributed to philosophy as much as Plato, if not more. He took Plato’s theory of forms and changed it, making it his own, and in the process resolved the problems that he had noted, as well as those pointed out by Plato and others. He called his new theory he called Hylomorphism. Hylomorphism’s way of thinking stands directly opposite that which Plato’s forms encourage. Aristotle did not see the world as a reflection of another filled with forms but as the physical embodiment of the forms. The substances are created by the innate forms in the matter and are the only way we can perceive forms. This means that to Aristotle a substance did not have form only in an abstract world of forms but was contained by the object in and of

Catholic Church: St. Thomas Aquinas (Cosmological Argument) In St. Thomas Aquinas’s cosmological argument claims the following that the universe exist and its very existence has a cause and that cause is God. In his unfinished book Summa Theologiae, Aquinas put forward five ways for the existence of God. His first way is the argument from motion and by studying the works of Aristotle, the Greek Philosopher, he concluded from common observation that the planets, rolling stone or any object that is in motion is put in motion by other forces or object.

Throughout the paper, Aquinas argues that the existence of God can be proven within his five ways of reasoning. This observation emerged while he was studying the works of the Greek Philosopher Aristotle. He uses the following statement to help the reader understand his first way of thinking, “the first and more manifest way is the argument from motion.” He begins by stating that some things are moving in this world. If you take a look around it seems like almost everything is at motion or has once been in motion. The main idea is that there must have been a first mover that began the chain of movements. If there was not a first mover, then nothing would essentially be in motion. His ultimate argument in the paper is that there must have been an unmoved mover to put things in motion, which he believes was God.

Throughout the history of the world, there were many unsure views of how everything in the universe moved. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, developed a geocentric idea in the mid-300’s B.C. that stated everything in the universe orbited around Earth, and Earth was the center of the universe. This theory stuck around for almost a thousand years. In fact, it had stayed around for so long, that it became a part of Christian doctrine.

Lastly in terms of his understanding of causation, the final cause of a thing or object was its purpose (telos). The purpose of the statue is aesthetic in that it is admired; the purpose of my laptop is to help me do my work well. Aristotle uses the example of health being the cause of walking, 'Why does one walk?' he asks, 'that one may be healthy'. This is perhaps the most important of all the causes. Yet his understanding does not end here. Once something has achieved a state of actuality it is also in a state of potentiality. In this sense we can see that Aristotle saw that the universe was moving constantly between ‘potentiality’ to ‘actuality’ back to ‘potentiality’ once again. This idea required Aristotle to explain things further still because in order for this theory to work it must explain everything in the universe, including the universe itself.

He argues that because of this, there is growth, deterioration, and reproduction. Aristotle says that plants only have this type of ability. To obtain this, it is important to have a soul. The next level is sensation. Because of this quality, the feelings of pain and pleasure arises. Aristotle says that animals have this quality. For a soul to have sensations, vegetation must be there as well. In other words, if sensation is a characteristic of the soul, its vegetative ability is added as well. The next capacity that can be developed is appetite, which is very much related to sensation. After the soul is able to feel, there is a rush of desires. Some desires go along with what we physically need like thirst and hunger and other desires that we do not need like emotions like anger. The next step is motion, which is movement from place to place and rest. As said before, in order to have this ability, it is essential to have the previous ones, building up on the soul. For motion to be possible, appetite, sensation and vegetation must also be there. The last level is understanding; which Aristotle thinks is the most unusual. This involves reasoning using thought and intelligence. In this category, humans would most likely be found even though Aristotle states that some people are guided only by imagination and not intelligence. Again, to have this quality, all of the characteristics stated before must be

Through experimentation, Galileo learned that an object rolling down an incline increases in speed. Likewise, an object rolling up an incline decreases in speed. These observations seem to verify Aristotle's stance that such motion must be sustained by a cause. The incline sustains the motion, but what if there was no incline whatsoever? In the absence of friction, on a perfectly horizontal line, Galileo reasoned that an object would have no force to speed or slow it, and the object would continue to move forever. Motion does not need to be sustained by a cause, once it begins it will continue until something stops it.

One of the most basic arguments for a stationary Earth was developed by Aristotle. Humans can perceive motion through the wind on our faces, the scenery passing by, and other factors. However, since the motion of the Earth is not observable in the same way other motion is, Aristotle determined that the Earth was stationary. This among many of his other ideas were used to build a world view that was in place for thousands of years.

For almost 2000 years Aristotle's theories were considered to be fact. Though some scientists questioned these theories - questioning is a key element in scientific research and discovery - it was not hard to agree with Aristotle. Their tools were observation and the recorded history to that point in their lives. They observed the sun and the moon rise and set. The moon, stars and planets moved across the night sky. And the ground felt stable, it was not moving. Obviously, the earth was a stationary thing and everything in the sky above rotated around it. It took many more years, and the invention of the telescope, to finally prove that the earth was moving, and so were the moon, sun, stars, and other

Aristotle: Plato, Knowledge has a cause to it. If there is no cause then there is no way of having knowledge. Knowledge is based on four causes: “the Material Cause, the Formal Cause, the Efficient Cause, and the Final Cause. These stages (causes) determine the gaining knowledge: looking at the materialistic view, looking at the idea behind it, the change behind the idea, and the purpose of the idea.” Once we have gotten to the last stage,