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Aristotle appeared handsome and refined. Notably, he was well dressed. Presumably he was rich, with large family holdings at Stagira. Aristotle was an intellectual but not devoid of passion. Aristotle was, in fact, spellbound by the Socratic doctrine of immortality as expounded by Plato. He was interested in it.[br /]
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Aristotle’s character comprised of two prominent qualities : [br /]
(i) Kindness, and (ii) Affection, without any trace of self-importance that can be detected from his works. Aristotle’s will exhibits the same kindly traits, he made reference to his happy family life and took solicitous care of his children and servants.[br /]
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Aristotle’s personal happiness is revealed in ‘On Philosophy’, the last of his purely literary works. This work was completed in about 348 B.C., and after that, he devoted his energies to research, teaching, and writing of more technical treatises. He established philosophy as a profession.[br /]
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Aristotle defined the specific role of the philosopher. He divided the historical development of civilization into five main stages. Aristotle found the emergence of philosophy as its culmination.[br /]
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In his manifesto, Aristotle had optimistic affirmation of the values of this world, simultaneously he rejected the Platonic doctrine that the soul is imprisoned in the body and is in need of struggling free from the bonds of matter. By this stroke Aristotle established his identity in the history of thought.[br /]
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Chief among Aristotalian lost works are : ‘Eudemus’, in the tradition of Plato’s ‘Phaedo’, ‘On Philosophy’, a type of philosophical programme containing themes to be developed in his ‘Metaphysics’, ‘Protreplicus’ or exhortation to the life of philosophy, Gryllus, or ‘On Rhetoric’, ‘On Justice’, expressing nascent themes of his Politics, and ‘On Ideas’, which criticizes Plato’s theory of forms.[br /]
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Aristotle was never a politician, but a public figure and lived often enough in the public gaze. He died far from the main centers of Greek life. In the spring of 322 B. C., he went to Chalecis, on the island of Euboea, where his mother’s family had property; and in the last months of his life, he lamented the fact that he had become isolated and cut off.[br /]
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Aristotle believed that knowledge and teaching were inseparable. He spent thirteen years in Athens, the cultural capital of Greek world, and taught regularly in the Lyceum. Aristotle did not work alone.[br /]
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Friends and colleagues joined him in his scientific and philosophical projects. He loved team work.[br /]
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Aristotle was a willy-nilly public figure. The honors granted to Aristotle in 330 B.C. were later withdrawn.[br /]
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His research produced a compact and well-documented history of one aspect of Athenian life.[br /]
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Aristotle was a willy-nilly public figure. The honors granted to Aristotle in 330 B.C. were later withdrawn.[br /]
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His research produced a compact and well-documented history of one aspect of Athenian life.[br /]
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Aristotle devoted much of his time to original and first hand study. He was a research scientist. The use of past discoveries a reliance on tradition, is a sensible procedure for any intellectual inquirer. But in Aristotle it goes a little deeper than that. At the end of a long time of thinkers, he was highly conscious of his position.
He did have a strong sense of intellectual history and of his place therein. In ‘Topics’, a work primarily concerned with reasoning from and about ‘reputable opinions’, he advises us to collect such opinions and to use them as starting points for inquiries.[br /]
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Aristotle’s character comprised of two prominent qualities : [br /]
(i) Kindness, and (ii) Affection, without any trace of self-importance that can be detected from his works. Aristotle’s will exhibits the same kindly traits, he made reference to his happy family life and took solicitous care of his children and servants.[br /]
[br /]
Aristotle’s personal happiness is revealed in ‘On Philosophy’, the last of his purely literary works. This work was completed in about 348 B.C., and after that, he devoted his energies to research, teaching, and writing of more technical treatises. He established philosophy as a profession.[br /]
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Aristotle defined the specific role of the philosopher. He divided the historical development of civilization into five main stages. Aristotle found the emergence of philosophy as its culmination.[br /]
[br /]
In his manifesto, Aristotle had optimistic affirmation of the values of this world, simultaneously he rejected the Platonic doctrine that the soul is imprisoned in the body and is in need of struggling free from the bonds of matter. By this stroke Aristotle established his identity in the history of thought.[br /]
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Chief among Aristotalian lost works are : ‘Eudemus’, in the tradition of Plato’s ‘Phaedo’, ‘On Philosophy’, a type of philosophical programme containing themes to be developed in his ‘Metaphysics’, ‘Protreplicus’ or exhortation to the life of philosophy, Gryllus, or ‘On Rhetoric’, ‘On Justice’, expressing nascent themes of his Politics, and ‘On Ideas’, which criticizes Plato’s theory of forms.[br /]
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Aristotle was never a politician, but a public figure and lived often enough in the public gaze. He died far from the main centers of Greek life. In the spring of 322 B. C., he went to Chalecis, on the island of Euboea, where his mother’s family had property; and in the last months of his life, he lamented the fact that he had become isolated and cut off.[br /]
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Aristotle believed that knowledge and teaching were inseparable. He spent thirteen years in Athens, the cultural capital of Greek world, and taught regularly in the Lyceum. Aristotle did not work alone.[br /]
[br /]
Friends and colleagues joined him in his scientific and philosophical projects. He loved team work.[br /]
[br /]
Aristotle was a willy-nilly public figure. The honors granted to Aristotle in 330 B.C. were later withdrawn.[br /]
[br /]
His research produced a compact and well-documented history of one aspect of Athenian life.[br /]
[br /]
Aristotle was a willy-nilly public figure. The honors granted to Aristotle in 330 B.C. were later withdrawn.[br /]
[br /]
His research produced a compact and well-documented history of one aspect of Athenian life.[br /]
[br /]
Aristotle devoted much of his time to original and first hand study. He was a research scientist. The use of past discoveries a reliance on tradition, is a sensible procedure for any intellectual inquirer. But in Aristotle it goes a little deeper than that. At the end of a long time of thinkers, he was highly conscious of his position.
He did have a strong sense of intellectual history and of his place therein. In ‘Topics’, a work primarily concerned with reasoning from and about ‘reputable opinions’, he advises us to collect such opinions and to use them as starting points for inquiries.[br /]
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