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Aristotle “The Ancient Scientist”
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Essential ideas What is outside all possibility of experience for us can be nothing to us. The human body changes, yet the person is still the person; so the essence of anything is identified through form. Natural things should be organized according to organization and structure. Morally, man should strive for a “golden mean.”
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THE QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER FOR “The Four Becauses” of the Classification of Forms What is it made of? What makes it? What gives it shape? What is the reason it exists?
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THE GOLDEN MEAN Having desires will create conflict between men. There is a “virtue” that is the “midway point” between two the extremes of the conflict. Man must strive to attain the “midway point” that is “the golden mean.”
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