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Aristotle was the widely read and greatest philosopher of all time. People termed him as philosophy in that philosophy study was simply Aristotle’s work-study. He produced works whose focus was on well-defined disciplines, for example, cosmology, biology, epistemology, metaphysics and ethics, making him dominate the Western tradition (Adamson, 207). Furthermore, he studied at Plato’s Academy though Plato would rival him because he was the greatest philosopher (Adamson, 208). However, he attacked platonic theories in one of his works when he said that people above our friends must honor the truth. He spent twenty years at the academy, which allowed him to consider Plato’s ideas though he was not a slavish follower.
At around 335BC, he set up a rival school in Athens, the Lyceum. The school later became nicknamed as “Peripatetic” due to philosophical discussions that walked back and forth. Together with his students, they came up with more than 158 constitutions though only the Constitution of Athens exists. He writes dialectically and has a lot of information about the pre-Socratics. He contrasted different opinions and considering their advantage of handling one side of a question first then on the other side.
Also, he invented logic, and this was a long-lasting contribution to philosophy’s history. According to him, all productive arguments are reducible to particular syllogism because any demonstration requires an explanation. He is a man who is knowledgeable and has a well-founded understanding of a thing. Nonetheless, there is a close relationship between what he calls knowledge and so-called science.
Based on Aristotle’s readings, what stands out to me is that Aristotle was not after the kind of knowledge one has but a well-founded and systematic understanding of things. The belief is attractive as people are explaining just one thing rather than a whole class of things.
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Adamson, Peter. Classical Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Print.
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