HONORS WORLD STUDIES MRS. STEINKE Aristotle

Just as Plato had been a student of Socrates, so Aristotle was a pupil of Plato. And Aristotle himself became tutor to Alexander the Great, so there is a direct line of intellectual succession here through four generations of tremendous intellectual thinkers.

Aristotle Aristotle fully acknowledged Plato’s genius, but rejected something fundamental to Plato’s philosophy, namely the idea that there are two worlds.

Aristotle Remember, Plato taught that there can be no such thing as reliable knowledge of this ever changing world that is presented to our senses. That objects of true knowledge inhabit, he said, another world, an abstract realm of time and space, accessible only to the intellect.

Aristotle As far as Aristotle was concerned, there is only one world that we can do any philosophizing about, and that is this world that we live in and experience.

Aristotle He, like Plato, opened his own school in Greece called Lyceum where philosophers went to study. It was a school for systematic research. Aristotle would teach by walking and talking.

Aristotle He produced an enormous body of work, including influential treatments on ethics, politics, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, psychology, cosmology, philosophy of mind, theology, memory and dreams.

Aristotle One of his most famous writings is on the rules of logic which goes something like this: All men are mortal Socrates is a man Therefore, Socrates is mortal

Aristotle Aristotle is one of the most highly quoted people of all time…here is a sampling:

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Now lets talk about the reading for today…its all about sleep.

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