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2000 years ago the Greek philosopher Democritus came up with the idea that if he cut an object in half, for example a rock, that he could eventually cut it until he reached a tiny piece that could no longer be cut or divided. Democritus named this unbreakable piece ‘atomos’ which in greek meant ‘indivisible/ uncuttable’. However this idea was rejected in favour of another philosopher, Aristotle, whose theory was that all matter was made up of 4 elements, fire, water, air and earth.

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Aristotle was born 384 BCE in Stagira, Ancient Greece to Nicomachus, his father, and Phaestis, his mother. His father worked as a court physician for Amyntas III, while much is unknown about his mother. Both died while Aristotle was a young child, so he spent most of his early childhood being raised by Proxenus, who was married to Aristotle’s older sister Arimneste.

trange; that was the only word to describe it. Aristotle’s eyes widened as he quickly leaped off his bike, making his way towards the abnormality. The peculiar flower caught his interest; he had never seen anything like it. He wandered off into this field not too far from his house, on a quest for flowers. However, this was not what he expected. This flower was such a beauty, it did not belong on Earth. Excitement flickered in his eyes. Aristotle was still in the early stages of becoming a botanist, but he knew almost too much about plants. A gleeful laugh escaped his lips, and he wasted no time in uprooting the flower from its spot. His hands shook with delight as he placed the flower in the basket of his bike, that previously occupied the ground. His legs burned when he raced home, his smile shined brightly in the afternoon sunlight.

Number Two is the number of Plurality. Duality (or divisional plurality). Dualism, from the Latin word duo, which means "two" and it denotes a condition or a state of two parts. With Unity there is one word, one original, and one only essence, but it severs itself into two properties; two actions which are a kind of binary opposition where two related terms or concepts, which form a pair, are in opposition of their meaning toward one another. Therefore, we see in Nature, two opposites strictly defined as a contrasting pair, one against the other, such as: joy and sorrow, light and darkness, day and night, male and female, mortal and immortal, life and death, spirit and flesh. Both, as contasting elements, together producing all things. Thus from the odd, proceed both odd and even, making two distinct and

The secound reason I found him interesting is because he does some pretty surprising things for egsample at the end of the story when he lies down and grabs a lemon and takes massive bites out of it and says I don't want to miss a thing in all my life. Not many people enjoy taking bites out of lemons but this boy just enjoys everything he does and lives life to the fulleset. He also surprisingly enjoys the nasty stench of pigs, as he bike past them on the way to rugby the boy says “ Pigs poo. It makes you want to laugh and shout it's such a

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Aristotle’s understanding of the four causes begins with the assumption that is present in all Greek philosophy, the notion of pre-existing matter. He observed the world around him and noticed that it was in a state of constant motion, a movement from potentiality to

Aristotle’s account of human nature is fairly simple, men are political animals and the only difference humans have from other animals is the, “ability to have reason and the ability to speak”(The Politics). He uses this to compare how nature creates men to be political animals and how it also creates the polis. The polis in Aristotle’s mind, is that the polis is there to benefit humans for the purpose of association, nature, and living the good life. The polis provides a sort of habitat to give people a proper upbringing and that we can achieve that because Aristotle has already broke down the form, power and purpose of the polis. To sum up his thinking, Aristotle thinks the purpose of the polis is to give the citizens a way to form partnerships

Aristotle is considered by many to be one of the most influential philosophers in history. As a student of Plato, he built on his mentor’s metaphysical teachings of things like The Theory of Forms and his views on the soul. However, he also challenged them, introducing his own metaphysical ideas such as act and potency, hylemorphism, and the four causes. He used these ideas to explain his account of the soul and the immateriality of intellect.

Aristotle was one of the most important western philosophers. He was a student of Plato and the teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. I found that his biggest impacts on modern society were in the subject areas of ethics, and zoology.

Aristotle regarded the world as made up of individuals (substances) occurring in fixed natural kinds (species). Each individual has its built-in specific pattern of development and grows toward proper self-realization as a specimen of its type. Growth, purpose, and direction are thus built into nature. The most distinguishing of Aristotle’s philosophic contributions was a new notion of causality. Each thing or event, he thought, has more than one "reason" that helps to explain what, why, and where it is. Therefore something can be better understood when its causes can be stated in specific terms rather than in general terms.

For Aristotle 'nearby movement is the essential kind of movement and the essential sort of movement is roundabout movement ' For Aristotle this implies everything is moving, and the best type of development is development in a round movement in light of the fact that a circle is the ideal type of development. It has no starting and no end, it is consistent and everlasting. Aristotle saw this movement in everything, even the human presence is that of a cycle. We are conceived, recreate and pass on, in a nonstop presence pretty much as the eminent bodies start at one point and move around until they are toward the starting point once more. Aristotle expressed his point as the accompanying:

Aristotle claims that the principle of non-contradiction [(PNC) - the principle that the same attribute cannot at the same time belong and not belong to the same subject and in the same respect” (Metaphysics, Aristotle, Part 3)] is the most certain of all principles. He further explains that this is employed in all proofs, on any subject and therefore is the most basic, and the first principle as it “is not derived from anything more basic”. Aristotle also claims, unlike Socrates, that the forms exist on the same level as becoming. Therefore, you can logically assume Socrates’ metaphysics is hierarchical in this regard. It is important to note that Aristotle does have a focal point with regards to metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics - goods. Not goods as in products, but goods as in moral goods. The reason this idea trickles down into other areas of his philosophy is because this is where he fundamentally disagrees with Socrates on the forms. He even goes as far as to say “This sort of inquiry is, to be sure unwelcome to us, because those who introduced the Forms (Socrates) were friends of ours; still, it presumably seems better, indeed only right, to destroy even what is close to us if that is the way to preserve the truth” (Nicomachean Ethics, Part 6, The Platonic Form of the Good). Aristotle also believes in 3 ideas of substance: changeable and perishable (organisms), changeable and eternal (souls/heavenly bodies), and

truths, and forms. He had no room in his views for imagination and what he saw