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This paper presents a brief overview of Aristotle's life and accomplishments. The paper examines Aristotle's education under Plato. The paper states that Aristotle had studied in depth and written about almost every subject that was in existence at the time, including anatomy, astronomy, physics, geology, zoology, aesthetics, rhetoric, logic, ethics, metaphysics, psychology, and literature. This paper focuses on his works regarding astronomy.

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"Aristotle (384-322 BCE) is one of the three most famous ancient philosophers whose work have left an indelible mark on the Western Civilization. Aristotle was born in Macedonia where his father was a physician in the royal court. He went to study in Plato's Academy at the age of 17 where he stayed for 20 years and was Plato's most distinguished pupil. After Plato died in 347 BC, he moved to Assos, a city in Asia Minor, and married the ruler (Hermias)s adopted daughter. After Hermias was captured and killed by the Persians a few years later, Aristotle was invited by the King of Macedonia to his court. There, he became a tutor to the King's son Alexander who was later to earn fame in history as Alexander the Great. In 335 BC, when Alexander became king, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his own school, the Lyceum. It was during the 13 years at Lyceum that most of Aristotle's works were written. When Alexander the Great died in 325 BC, anti-Macedonian feelings in Athens forced Aristotle to retreat to a family estate in Euboea, where he died the following year."

Tags:plato, hermias, philosopher

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The paper discusses Johannes Kepler, a key figure in the 17th century revolution of astronomy. The paper relates that his greatest accomplishment was the explanation of the laws of planetary motion which codified the rotation and planetary motion that was carefully researched and articulated by Tyco Brahe and Aristotle. The paper explains Kepler's treatment of force and his attempts to explain planetary motion as a result of the interaction between forces.

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"Kepler was a German born Lutheran; he principally served as a mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. His breakthrough came as a researcher and assistant for Tycho Brahe, the court mathematician for the Emperor of Austria. Brahe's careful documentation of celestial motion provided the solid data by which Kepler was able to carefully create his law of planetary motion. The reason for Kepler's popularity even in today's society is that his Laws of Planetary Motion are so widely sweeping, it accurately predicted a model that would still be true even in today's age of scientific development."

Tags:Brahe, Aristotle, physics, magnetism, planets, gravity

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This paper examines Aristotle's views on politics as compared to Plato's. The author uses Aristotle's work, "Politics" as the basis for this discussion. Quotes are used throughout the paper to exemplify Aristotle's outlook on various philosophical ideas. In particular, his view on the city as opposed to Plato's are contrasted. The author also describes Aristotle's opinion on Greek customs of the past and those practiced in his own day.

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"Clarence Earl Gideon was tried and convicted in the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, in and for Bay County, for the "crime of breaking and entering with the intent to commit a misdemeanor, to wit, petty larceny," and was given a five year prison sentence. In trial court, Gideon maintained that he was entitled to counsel by the state because he couldn't afford his own. In essence, Gideon was asserting that his conviction violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states "No state shall...deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." The key here being "due process of law." Without the aid and guidance of counsel was Gideon given a fair opportunity to defend himself, and were his due process guarantees were violated? The case on which the Supreme Court ruled on this exact issue was Betts v. Brady, in which they rejected the contention that due process under the Fourteenth Amendment provided a flat guarantee of counsel in state criminal trials (8). "But that did not necessarily make Gideon's petition futile, for the Supreme court never speaks with absolute finality when it interprets the Constitution," and "although he did not know it, Clarence Earl Gideon was calling for one of those great occasions in legal history...by asking the Supreme Court to change its mind" (11)."

Tags:Aristotle, Politics, Polity, Plato, Republic

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Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics, discusses the nature of the classical Greek virtues and how they interrelate within the body politic of societies. One of the most fascinating aspects of this discussion is Aristotle's analysis of the respective virtues of justice and friendship, for while he represents justice as being virtue in its entirety, in another sense he suggests that friendship is more important than virtue. As this essay will argue, while Aristotle contends that friendship can exist without justice, for him justice cannot exist without friendship. However, as the highest form of friendship - "perfect friendship" - is the friendship of men who are just, it cannot be said that friendship is more important than justice to society. Instead, the two are intimately intertwined. From the perspective of the interests of society or the state, while justice is necessary for the society to operate effectively, friendship is necessary for a society to operate at a higher level of functioning.

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Aristotle on Justice and Friendship Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics, discusses the nature of the classical Greek virtues and how they interrelate within the body politic of societies. One of the most fascinating aspects of this discussion is Aristotle's analysis of the respective virtues of justice and friendship, for while he represents justice as being virtue in its entirety, in another sense he suggests that friendship is more important than virtue. As this essay will argue, while Aristotle contends that friendship can exist without justice, for him justice cannot exist without friendship. However, as the highest form of friendship - "perfect friendship" - is the

Tags:justice, friendship, aristotle

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This paper examines polity as Aristotle's third best kind of regime. The author points out what factors justify Aristotle's ranking it neither higher nor lower than he does. The paper relates Aristotle's belief that government should be impartial and concerned with the common good.

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"According to Aristotle, polity is the third best regime. What is polity and what factors justify Aristotle's ranking it neither higher nor lower than he does? Polity is the third best of the better kinds of regimes according to Aristotle, ranking below monarchy ..."

Tags:Politics, Polity

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In this paper the writer compares and contrasts the moral philosophy in the works of Marx and Aristotle. The writer examines the contributions of Engels and Marx and of Aristotle to the nature of morality. The writer also discusses the differing methods of Aristotle and Marx.

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the contributions of Marx and Engels on one hand and Aristotle on the other with regard to the nature of morality. The research will set forth the discourse context for the issue and then discuss how the two approaches to analyzing morality coincide and how they differ with a view toward identifying and evaluating the significance and influence of these commentators on the discourse of morality. At first glance it seems that Aristotle and Marx can have very little in common ... "

Tags:Marx, Engels, Aristotle, Nichomachean, Ethics, German, Ideology

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Examining the texts of Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" and "Politics" side by side, one finds parallels between his reasoning with regard to the individual and to the state. This paper shows that, in "Nicomachean Ethics," Aristotle discusses happiness, virtue, and the good life on an individual level and lays out necessary provisions for the good life of a person. He maintains that virtue is a necessary element of happiness, but this requirement of virtue for the happy life goes beyond the individual level, as we see it in "Politics". There, this paper shows, Aristotle claims that man is by nature a "political animal," and for that reason, he can only achieve the above-mentioned virtues as part of a state. Since the city is formed by many individuals, the virtue of the state is constituted by the individual virtues of its citizens. This paper shows, therefore, that fulfillment of requirements for the happy life of an individual, namely being virtuous and self-sufficient, is equally necessary for the state as a whole in order to be happy. We thus see that the virtue of a state is directly linked to the virtue of an individual, and therefore, the means of achieving the former will run parallel with those of the latter.

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"Aristotle's discussion of ownership of property early in the book gives us another perspective on the Doctrine of the Mean in regard to the state. Answering the question whether property has to be owned in common or privately, he criticizes the communism of property suggested by Plato in "The Republic" as one extreme that does result its best use. If the produce of work is to be shared equally whereas contribution to the production is unequal among individuals, "complaints are bound to arise between those who ... take much but work little and those who take less but work more." Such communism is thus viewed as a source of discontent and quarrels among the population, proving not to be the best use of property."

Tags:analysis, application, aristotle, citizen, comparison, deficience, doctrine, ethics, excess, functioning, ideal, individual, mean, nicomachean, politics, state, virtue

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This paper is a discussion of the book "The Politics" by Aristotle. In this book Aristotle introduces the idea of a middle class, and argues it's significance for the good of mankind. Aristotle argues that the middle class is the most suitable class to be rulers since unlike the rich who do not want anyone to rule them, or the poor, who do not have the means to rule, they live in the middle and have seen the best qualities of both the rich and the poor.

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"The poor, conversely, cannot be good rulers because their attributes usually consist of being overly indigent, weak, or lacking in honor. These qualities make it difficult for the poor to follow reason, and they usually become malicious and base in petty ways. If the malicious were given the entitlement to rule, it seems that their hateful and wicked ways would cause a tyrannical, or master/slave society. As was said before, the poor are full of envy for the rich and could, perhaps, attempt to revenge on those they resent. Either the rich or the poor can commit Acts of injustice. Whether it is through arrogance or malice, both are groups likely to act against the best interest of the city. The middling class must rule because both the rich and the poor, if given the claim to rule, are likely to cause nothing but injury to the cities."

Tags:11, ancient, aristotle, best, book, chapter, middling, philosophy, political, politics, regime, rulers

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This is a summary of Aristotle?s Nicomachean Ethics that emphasizes Aristotle's big influence in the world of ethics. His work amplifies and analyzes the concepts of many ethical issues. Since his book is divided into ten books, this term paper is also divided into 10 different, complete summaries.

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"All knowledge and every pursuit aim at some good. Happiness is directly related to living well and doing well. Happiness is a complete and sufficient good. Most people associate happiness with pleasure. A life of pleasure is what man seeks out. There are three prominent types of lives: the pleasure life, the political life, and the contemplative life. The contemplative life is one, which practices the best activity. The best activity brings perfect happiness. The contemplative life is by far the happiest life. Aristotle explains that the good of anything is to perform its characteristic activity well."

Tags:aristotle, book, ethics, greek, nicomachean, summary

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This paper discusses how the modern discoveries of physics, astronomy, cosmology and biology have provided mankind with a compellingly robust set of proofs for the existence of God. The purpose of this paper is to examine what some of these good reasons are for believing in God's existence. It also includes an examination of the following classical proofs for God's existence: the cosmological argument and the teleological argument, which is also known as the argument from design. The cosmological argument is examined with respect to views of both Plato and Aristotle because of their great influence on other proponents of the cosmological argument.

Outline:
Introduction
The Cosmological Argument
The Teleological Argument
Conclusion
Bibliography

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"How does one possess knowledge of something? Knowledge allows one to attempt to ask what something is and why it is; "it also inquires into the grounds of this knowledge - including knowledge of and talk about God." The act of knowing is one, which provides both arguments and proofs. One trait, which is common to the method of formulating proofs, is that of repetition. Proofs can take on many different dimensions: "the proof of a mathematician, the proof a natural scientists who proceeds by experiment, the proof of a lawyer, a historian, a literary researcher, or the proof of a doctor when he diagnoses an illness." The 'proofs of God's existence' are of a completely different nature than those aforementioned. This is true because God is immaterial and transcends the universe. He cannot be proved by a series of bullet experiments. It is inevitable that one will approach the issue of God's existence with a set of presuppositions. "

Tags:Cosmological, Teleological