The premisses must be the cause of the conclusion, more knowable than it, and prior to it its causes, since we posses scientific knowledge of a thing only when we know its cause prior, in order to be causes antecedently known, this antecedent knowledge being not our mere understanding of the meaning, but knowledge of the fact as well. The premisses of demonstrative knowledge must be true, primary, immediate, more knowable than and prior to the conclusion, which is further related to them as effect to cause.Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.Posterior Analytics Posterior Analytics (Greek: Ἀναλυτικὰ Ὕστερα Latin: Analytica Posteriora) To give a rough idea, examples of substance are man, horse of quantity: four-foot, five-foot of qualification: white, grammatical of a relative: double, half, larger of where: in the Lyceum, in the market-place of when: yesterday, last-year of being-in-a-position: is-lying, is sitting of having: has-shoes-on, has-armour-on of doing: cutting, burning of being-affected: being-cut, being-burned. Of things said without any combination, each signifies either substance or quantity or qualification or a relative or where or when or being-in-a-position or having or doing or being affected.2Ĭategories Categories (Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai Latin Categoriae) Letter to Alexander the Great as quoted by William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Ch.My lectures are published and not published they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.In this lemma quotes are arranged by Bekker numbers (as far as possible). Quotes Quotations from Aristotle are often cited by Bekker numbers, which are keyed to the original Greek and therefore independent of the translation used. 1.16 The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.As a result, his philosophy has exerted a unique influence on almost every form of knowledge in the West and it continues to be a subject of contemporary philosophical discussion. It was above all from his teachings that the West inherited its intellectual lexicon, as well as problems and methods of inquiry. Aristotle provided a complex synthesis of the various philosophies existing prior to him. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology and government. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition. Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.Īristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotelēs 384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. This alone cannot be imparted by another it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results. On the contrary, much more practical are those mental activities and reflections which have their goal in themselves and take place for their own sake.
Practical life is not necessarily directed toward other people, as some think and it is not the case that practical thoughts are only those which result from action for the sake of what ensues.
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