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  2. Aristotle - Wikipedia

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    Views on women. Aristotle [A] (384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider ...

  3. Aristotle Onassis - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle Socrates Onassis was born in 1906 in Karataş, a suburb of the port city of Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey) in Anatolia to Greek parents Socrates Onassis and Penelope Dologlou. Aristotle had one sister, Artemis, and two half-sisters, Kalliroi and Merope, by his father's second marriage following Penelope's death (1912).

  4. Aristotelian physics - Wikipedia

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    Aristotelian physics is the form of natural philosophy described in the works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC). In his work Physics, Aristotle intended to establish general principles of change that govern all natural bodies, both living and inanimate, celestial and terrestrial – including all motion (change with respect to ...

  5. Metaphysics (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    Metaphysics. (Aristotle) Metaphysics ( Greek: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, "those after the physics"; Latin: Metaphysica [1]) is one of the principal works of Aristotle, in which he develops the doctrine that he calls First Philosophy. [a] The work is a compilation of various texts treating abstract subjects, notably substance theory ...

  6. Works of Aristotle - Wikipedia

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    The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle 's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, [citation needed] his writings are divisible into two groups: the "exoteric" and the "esoteric ...

  7. Potentiality and actuality - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy, potentiality and actuality [1] are a pair of closely connected principles which Aristotle used to analyze motion, causality, ethics, and physiology in his Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, and De Anima. [2] The concept of potentiality, in this context, generally refers to any "possibility" that a thing can be said to have.

  8. Rhetoric (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle identified rhetoric as one of the three key elements—along with logic and dialectic —of philosophy. The first line of the Rhetoric is: "Rhetoric is a counterpart ( antistrophe) of dialectic." [1] : . I.1.1 According to Aristotle, logic is concerned with reasoning to reach scientific certainty, while dialectic and rhetoric are ...

  9. Physics (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of physics in Aristotle. It is a collection of treatises or lessons that deals with the most general (philosophical) principles of natural or moving things, both living and non-living, rather than physical theories (in the modern sense) or investigations of the particular contents of the universe.