Essays on Aristotle Page 7

For the purposes of this essay, definitions will be kept simple: a realist is someone who represents or views things as they are in reality, while an idealist is someone who has high ideals that are not necessarily based in reality, someone who sets a standard to aim at that could be considered unrealistic. This…

INTRODUCTION Happiness is a very relative term in the sense it is an expression arising from different occurrence by totally different and furthermore in a different environment. You can imagine the feeling of Kofi Annan when he was inaugurated in as the Secretary general of the United nations, the feelings of a student at a…

Introduction Metaphysics pertains to the branch of philosophy which studies the ultimate reality. The term originated in ancient times as an editor’s designation for some of Aristotle’s writings. Aristotle had called these writings First Philosophy. The editor designated this treatise Metaphysics (“after the physics”) because he placed it in his edition after Aristotle’s writings on…

Descartes Meditations begun by attempting to doubt everything then moved on to build up from that to those few things which we can know with certainty. These mediations were written during the time when the recognized sciences were Aristotelian; therefore, it implies that the philosophy of science that prevailed was also Aristotelian.  Descartes mediation on…

Question 1: Thomas Hobbes proposed a radical and contradictory explanation about the origin and purpose of the state in his book Leviathan. According to Hobbes, the State is formed through a social contract between the government and its people. Hobbes argues that without a central authority to instill fear, individuals live in a state of…

            Thin Mints, Tagalongs, and Samoas; the mere mention of those words makes most mouths water, conjuring images of cute little girls sitting at a worn and wobbly card table outside local supermarkets.  While most would jump at the opportunity to purchase cookies to support these girls, concurrently supporting our taste buds’ indulgence, on January…

Some aspects of Aristotle’s theory of slavery Slavery — natural or conventional? Aristole’s theory of slavery is found in Book I, Chapters iii through vii of the Politics. and in Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle raises the question of whether slavery is natural or conventional. He asserts that the former is the case….

Although we grant the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, proposition about the future seem problematic. If a proposition about tomorrow is true or false today, then the futur event it describes will happen or not happen necessarily; but if such a proposition is neither true nor false then there is…

Aristotle explored various subjects, such as the existence of God, politics, and ethics, in his philosophy. Among these topics, the significance of sleep and dreams was often overlooked but crucial, and Aristotle proceeded to provide explanations for them. In three treatises, namely On Sleep and Dreams, On Sleeping and Waking, and On Divination through Sleep,…

The good man and the good citizen are not synonymous. The two are not equivalent. The good man must also be a good citizen, but it is not necessary for the good citizen to be a good man. It is crucial to recognize this distinction because it emphasizes that the qualities of a good man…