Examples of Aristotle in the following topics:
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- The three most famous Classical Greek philosophers are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
- Of these philosophers, the most famous are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
- Aristotle is often portrayed as disagreeing with his teacher, Plato.
- Aristotle did not consider virtue to be simple knowledge as Plato did,
but founded in one’s nature, habit, and reason.
- Roman copy in marble of a Greek bronze bust of Aristotle by Lysippus, c. 330 BCE.
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- Philosophical discourse was stimulated by the rediscovery of Aristotle—more than 3,000 pages of his works would eventually be translated—and his emphasis on empiricism and rationalism.
- Most notably, contact with Muslims led to the the European rediscovery and translation of Aristotle, whose wide-ranging works influenced medieval philosophy, theology, science, and medicine.
- Philosophy and theology fused in scholasticism, an attempt by 12th- and 13th-century scholars to reconcile authoritative texts, most notably Aristotle and the Bible.
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- The increased contact with Byzantium and with the Islamic world in Spain and Sicily, the Crusades, and the Reconquista allowed Europeans to seek and translate the works of Hellenic and Islamic philosophers and scientists, especially Aristotle.
- The rediscovery of the works of Aristotle allowed the full development of the new Christian philosophy and the method of scholasticism.
- By 1200 there were reasonably accurate Latin translations of the main works of Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, Archimedes, and Galen—that is, all the intellectually crucial ancient authors except Plato.
- In his turn, Nicole Oresme showed that the reasons proposed by the physics of Aristotle against the movement of Earth were not valid, and adduced the argument of simplicity for the theory that Earth moves, and not the heavens.
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- According to Aristotle, Aeschylus also expanded the number
of actors in theater to allow for the dramatization of conflict on stage.
- As Aristotle wrote in his Poetics, comedy is defined by the representation of laughable
people, and involves some kind of blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain
or disaster.
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- Before, the author was less important, since a copy of Aristotle made in Paris would not be exactly identical to one made in Bologna.
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- According to Aristotle, the Carthaginians and others had treaties of commerce to regulate their exports and imports.The empire of Carthage depended heavily on its trade with cities of the Iberian peninsula, from which it obtained vast quantities of silver, lead, copper and—
most importantly —tin ore, which was essential for the manufacture of bronze objects by the civilizations of antiquity.
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- The most popular explanation dates
back to Aristotle, who argued that tyrants were set up by the people in response
to the nobility becoming less tolerable.
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- During his youth, Alexander was tutored by the philosopher Aristotle, until the age of 16.
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- Luther sought assurances about life and was drawn to theology and philosophy, expressing particular interest in Aristotle, William of Ockham, and Gabriel Biel.
- Reason could not lead men to God, he felt, and he thereafter developed a love-hate relationship with Aristotle over the latter's emphasis on reason.
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- Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander was tutored by the philosopher Aristotle until the age of sixteen.