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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, pronounced [aristotélɛːs]; 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.
Poetics. (Aristotle) Aristotle 's Poetics ( Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς Peri poietikês; Latin: De Poetica; [1] c. 335 BCE [2]) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
Aristotelian ethics. Aristotle first used the term ethics to name a field of study developed by his predecessors Socrates and Plato which is devoted to the attempt to provide a rational response to the question of how humans should best live. Aristotle regarded ethics and politics as two related but separate fields of study, since ethics ...
Aristotle of Athens. Aristoteles ( Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης) or Aristotle was one of the thirty tyrants established at Athens in 404 BCE. [1] From an allusion in the speech of Theramenes before his condemnation, Aristoteles appears to have been also one of the Four Hundred oligarchs in the Athenian coup of 411 BC, and to have ...
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 ...
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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 ...