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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.
Works of Aristotle. The end of Sophistical Refutations and beginning of Physics on page 184 of Bekker 's 1831 edition. The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase Corpus Aristotelicum, is the collection of Aristotle 's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates ...
Poetics. (Aristotle) Aristotle 's Poetics ( Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς Peri poietikês; Latin: De Poetica; [1] c. 335 BCE [2]) is the earliest surviving work of Greek dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
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 ...
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Aristoteles ( Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης) or Aristotle was one of the thirty tyrants established at Athens in 404 BCE. [1] From an allusion in the speech of Theramenes before his condemnation, Aristoteles appears to have been also one of the Four Hundred oligarchs in the Athenian coup of 411 BC, and to have taken an active part in ...
Aristotelian ethics. Aristotle first used the term ethics to name a field of study developed by his predecessors Socrates and Plato which is devoted to the attempt to provide a rational response to the question of how humans should best live. Aristotle regarded ethics and politics as two related but separate fields of study, since ethics ...
The Decree of Aristoteles ( Inscriptiones Graecae II 2 43) was a decree passed by the Athenian Assembly in February or March 377 BC. [1] The decree is preserved as the inscription on a stele; it is the most important epigraphical source for the Second Athenian Confederacy. [2] The stele was originally erected near the statue of Zeus Eleutherios ...