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Protrepticus. (Aristotle) Protrepticus ( Ancient Greek: Προτρεπτικός) or, "Exhortation to Philosophy" ( Ancient Greek: Φιλοσοφητέον) is a lost philosophical work written by Aristotle in the mid-4th century BCE. The work was intended to encourage the reader to study philosophy. [1] Although the Protrepticus was one of ...
One of Thomas Aquinas ' commentaries on Aristotle. This edition dates from 1595. The page depicts Aristotle himself. Commentaries on Aristotle refers to the great mass of literature produced, especially in the ancient and medieval world, to explain and clarify the works of Aristotle. The pupils of Aristotle were the first to comment on his ...
Atoms and the void as the fundamental constituents of the physical world [a] Democritus ( / dɪˈmɒkrɪtəs /, dim-OCK-rit-əs; Greek: Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people"; c. 460 – c. 370 BC) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic ...
Politics (Aristotle) Politics ( Πολιτικά, Politiká) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. At the end of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily leads into a discussion of politics. The two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger ...
Aristotelian physics. 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 ...
Unmoved mover. The unmoved mover ( Ancient Greek: ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ, romanized : ho ou kinoúmenon kineî, lit. 'that which moves without being moved') [1] or prime mover ( Latin: primum movens) is a concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary cause (or first uncaused cause) [2] or "mover" of all the motion in the ...
Lyceum (classical) Coordinates: 37°58′26.67″N 23°44′36.61″E. Plato and Aristotle walking and disputing. Detail from Raphael 's The School of Athens (1509–1511) The Lyceum ( Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized : Lykeion) was a temple in Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus ("Apollo the wolf-god" [1] ). It was best known for the ...
The roughly spherical shape of Earth can be empirically evidenced by many different types of observation, ranging from ground level, flight, or orbit. The spherical shape causes a number of effects and phenomena that combined disprove flat Earth beliefs . These include the visibility of distant objects on Earth's surface; lunar eclipses ...