ThePhilosophyCenter: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logic: Ancient Aristotelianism

 Hello! Today's topic  is about ancient aristotelianism: the philosophy around the belief of Aristotle. Let's introduce the man who first thought about it, and a brief history of the philosophy.

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Character Profile: ARISTOTLE

Born: 384 BC, Stagira, Greece.

Died: 322 BC. 

Works: "Metaphysics", "Nicomachean Ethics", "Eudemian Ethics", "Categories", "Prior Analytics", "Posterior Analytics", "On Interpretation", "Politics", "Poetics", "Rhetoric, "On the Soul.".

Text Description: Aristotle was a greek philosopher born 384 BC. He entered Plato's academy, and both learned and taught there, but his own philosophy differed from Plato's. He founded his own academy of philosophy later. The fields of studies he covers include philosophy, biology, poetry, botany, and physics. He made great contributions to logic, epistemology, and species classification. He was also the tutor of Alexander the Great. He died by 322 BC.

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Brief History of Aristotelianism

We will divide Aristotelianism into two episodes: Ancient Aristotelianism and Medieval Aristotelianism. Later, in the medieval era, scholars from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish background made philosophies inspired by Aristotle's but directed to the religion they followed. Today we're doing the classical, original aristotelianism. 

Aristotelianism was somewhat ignored by people until the medieval era when it became popular. 

Aristotelianism - The Actual Philosophy

Aristotle has multiple beliefs on multiple types of philosophy.

Logic

Aristotle makes the first laws of logic: predetermining conditons from already known conditions. Aristotle developed the first syllogisms. One example is, if A=B and B=C, A=C. Until the 1800s, there would be no advancement from Aristotle's logical laws.

Metaphysics

Aristotle differs from Plato's idea. In Plato's theory of Forms, everything has an ideal form. But in Aristotle's theory, the thing has both the form and matter. He is more empiricst and he trusts senses more than ratioanlity.

Sciences

This is no science blog, but he made some controbutions to biology, physics, geology, astronomy and more, and he was the first to study them systematically. He made classifications to 500 animal species which people today still use. Aristotle also believed animals and plants had a "soul" that only let the, move, sense, reproduce, and grow, but not think or reflect.

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There won't be a comparison with Christianity because next week, I'll do medieval aristotelianism (then after that return to the ancient era philosophy) which will be about how aristotelianism mixes with religion.

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