Aristotle Research Paper

The most important among Plato's disciples, the son of a physician, and thought to be the greatest philosopher of ancient times: Aristotle. Philosophy to him meant science, and its aim was to acknowledge the purpose in all things. Though little is known about Aristotle’s early years, its said that he was strongly influenced by his father’s occupation and that gave him his interest in biology, a science that had long been considered inferior to other disciplines. “A scholar whose scientific explorations were as wide ranging as his philosophical speculations were profound; a teacher who enchanted and inspired the brightest youth of Greece” (Barnes, 1).” Aristotle Was a man that had so many achievements that no man could ever try and challenge

Aristotle never felt the need to boast or have that self- satisfaction, even if he did deserve a pat on the back. He was highly conscious of his own position at the end of a long line of thinkers. The Aristotelian conviction stands directly upon two characteristic features of his thought. First, he insists on the value of what he calls ‘reputable opinions’. Something believed by all or most, so Aristotle thinks, have something to be said in its favor. Secondly, Aristotle had a clear idea of the importance of tradition in the growth of knowledge. Aristotle never devoted much study to cosmetics. But it was worth pondering to him. Aristotle’s studies in ‘politics and agriculture’ were impressive though. Aristotle felt the need for system: if human knowledge is not unitary, neither is it a mere disconnected plurality. Aristotle divided knowledge into three major classes: ‘all thought is either practical or productive or theoretical’. The productive sciences which were involved the making of things – cosmetics and farming, art and engineering. Aristotle himself had relatively little to say about productive

That is what makes it knowledge rather than fantasy. an we say anything more, in general terms, about those middle-sized material objects which are the chief substances in Aristotle’s world? One of their most important features is that they change. Unlike Plato’s Forms, which exist eternally and are always the same, Aristotle’s substances are for the most part temporary items which undergo a variety of alterations. There are, in Aristotle’s view, four types of change: a thing can change in respect of substance, of quality, of quantity, and of place. Change in respect of substance is coming- into-being and going-out-of-existence, or generation and destruction; such changes occurs when a cat is born and when it dies, when a statue is made and when it is smashed. Change in respect of quality is called alteration: a plant alters when it grows green in the sunlight or pale in the dark; a wax candle alters when it grows soft in the heat or hardens in the cold. Change in respect of quantity is growth and diminution; and natural objects typically begin by growing and end by diminishing. Finally, change in respect of place is motion. Most of the Physics is devoted to a study of change in its different forms. F or the Physics studies the philosophical background to natural science; and ‘nature is a principle of motion and change’, so that ‘things have a nature if they possess such a principle’. That is to say, the very subject- matter of natural science