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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.
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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 treatise — or perhaps ...
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 ...
Active intellect. In medieval philosophy, the active intellect ( Latin: intellectus agens; also translated as agent intellect, active intelligence, active reason, or productive intellect) is the formal ( morphe) aspect of the intellect ( nous ), according to the Aristotelian theory of hylomorphism. The nature of the active intellect was a major ...
On Generation and Corruption ( Ancient Greek: Περὶ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς; Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione ), also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific, part of Aristotle's biology, and philosophic. The philosophy is essentially empirical ...
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 ...
Byzantine philosophy refers to the distinctive philosophical ideas of the philosophers and scholars of the Byzantine Empire, especially between the 8th and 15th centuries. It was characterised by a Christian world-view, closely linked to Eastern Orthodox theology, but drawing ideas directly from the Greek texts of Plato, Aristotle, and the ...