Virtue ethics describes the character of a moral agent as a driving force for ethical behavior, and is used to describe the ethics of Socrates, Aristotle, and other early Greek philosophers.

Following Aristotle ’ s lead, he describes categories of the understanding, such as the notion of cause and effect, which inevitably mediate our experience of the world and give us the objects of our experience.

Aristotle describes the kingship at Sparta as " a kind of unlimited and perpetual generalship " ( Pol.

It is also a misconception that this reversal can be brought about by a higher power ( e. g. the law, the gods, fate, or society ), but if a character ’ s downfall is brought about by an external cause, Aristotle describes this as a misadventure and not a tragedy.

The chief authority for the bishop's life is William de Chambre, printed in Wharton's Anglia Sacra, 1691, and in Historiae conelmensis scriptores tres, Surtees Soc., 1839, who describes him as an amiable and excellent man, charitable in his diocese, and the liberal patron of many learned men, among these being Thomas Bradwardine, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, Richard Fitzralph, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh, the enemy of the mendicant orders, Walter Burley, who translated Aristotle, John Mauduit the astronomer, Robert Holkot and Richard de Kilvington.

Aristotle describes timocracy in the sense of rule by property-owners: it comprised one of his true political forms.

Aristotle often describes personal and domestic relationships in terms of different forms of government.

Here Clearchus describes the meeting between Aristotle ( who lived in the 4th century BCE ) and a Jew in Asia Minor, who was fluent in Greek language and thought:

For example, Aristotle ( although he misunderstood the function of the brain ) describes the meninges and also distinguishes between the cerebrum and the cerebellum.

Dark Night of the Soul further describes the ten steps on the ladder of mystical love, previously described by Saint Thomas Aquinas and in part by Aristotle.

Aristotle describes the properties of tornadoes and lightning.

Book VII briefly deals with the relationship of the moved to his mover, which Aristotle describes in substantial divergence with Plato's theory of the soul as capable of setting itself in motion ( Laws book X, Phaedrus, Phaedo ).

Aristotle identifies the goal of human action with “ happiness ” and describes the many factors contributing to it ( Bk.

Aristotle describes what makes certain topics appropriate or worthy for praise or blame.

So according to Aristotle, a " hexis " is a type of " disposition " ( diathesis ) which he in turn describes in the same as follows ...

Aristotle in 350 BC in his Historia Animalium noted the habit of bird migration, moulting, egg laying and life spans.

Records of bird migration were made 3, 000 years ago by Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus and Aristotle.

Aristotle noted that cranes traveled from the steppes of Scythia to marshes at the headwaters of the Nile.

; Pygmies: 27-inch dwarfs mentioned by Pliny and Aristotle who inhabited the mountains beyond India, waging war on the cranes that attacked them for three months a year.

Instead they have brought to the fore the literary qualities of the History, which they see as belonging to narrative tradition of Homer and Hesiod and as concerned with the concepts of justice and suffering found in Plato and Aristotle and problematized in Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ) classified animal species in his work The History of Animals, and his pupil Theophrastus ( c. 371 – c.

According to Aristotle ( Politics ) and Thucydides ( History of the Peloponnesian War ), Italus was the eponymous of Italy ( Italia ).

* Osborn, H. 1952 A Brief History of Entomology Including Time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to Modern Times with over Five Hundred Portraits. Columbus, Ohio, The Spahr & Glenn Company.

1877 ); S. F. Alleyne and A. Goodwin, Plato and the Older Academy ( 1876 ); Benjamin Francis Conn Costelloe and J. H. Muirhead, Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics ( 1897 ); O. J. Reichel, Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics ( 1870 and 1880 ); S. F. Alleyne, History of Eclecticism in Greek Philosophy ( 1883 ).

The longest surviving fragment of Diogenes is that which is inserted by Aristotle in the third book of his History of Animals.

In the 4th century BC, Aristotle was one of the earliest writers to comment, in his History of Animals, on the vestigial eyes of moles, calling them " stunted in development ".

* Lobkowicz, Nicholas, Theory and Practice: History of a Concept from Aristotle to Marx, University of Notre Dame Press, 1967.

On Aristotle, term logic, and Roman Catholicism, see Copleston's A History of Philosophy.

Earlier the dromedary and Bactrian camel were considered the same species, but this was corrected by Macedonian philosopher Aristotle, who defined them as one-humped and two-humped in his book History of Animals.

The Origins of Classical Mechanics from Aristotle to Newton M. Clagett ( ed ) Critical Problems in the History of Science, pp163 – 184 University of Wisconsin Proceedings 1957

The principal historical sources covering the two are Thucydides in his History of the Peloponnesian War ( VI, 56-59 ) and The Constitution of the Athenians ( XVIII ) attributed to Aristotle or his school, but their story is documented by a great many other ancient writers, such as Herodotus and Plutarch.

by Richard Robinson ( 1902-1996 ), * Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development, 1934 )

In 1935, he wrote “ History versus Criticism in the Study of Literature ” ( published in English Journal 24: 645-67 ), in which he defined literary criticism as “ simply the disciplined consideration, at once analytical and evaluative, of literary works as works of art .” Crane was greatly influenced by Richard McKeon, a professor of philosophy at the University, who stressed Aristotle ’ s idea of ‘ pluralism ,’ which says that many systems of criticism are necessary to completely understand literature, specifically poetry, or in the case of philosophy, the world.

* Osborn, H. 1952: A Brief History of Entomology Including Time of Demosthenes and Aristotle to Modern Times with over Five Hundred Portraits Columbus, Ohio, The Spahr & Glenn Company: 1-303.

He should not be confused with another philosopher Michael Davis, who has taught at Sarah Lawrence College since 1977 and whose work primarily concerns Aristotle, Plato, Greek Tragedy, and History of Modern Philosophy.

In his book Historia animalium ( History of animals ), Aristotle was careful enough to distinguish between the baleen whales and toothed whales, a taxonomical separation still used today.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle in his work The History of Animals ( 612a4 ) wrote:

History of Animals ( " Inquiries on Animals "; Latin Historia Animālium " History of Animals ") is a zoological natural history text by Aristotle.

** Michael Bradie and Fred D. Miller, Jr., " Teleology and Natural Necessity in Aristotle ," History of Philosophy Quarterly 1, 2 ( 1984 ), 133-46.

** Herbert Granger, " Aristotle on Genus and Differentia ," Journal of the History of Philosophy 22 ( 1984 ), 1-23.

The traditional Greats course consisted of detailed study of Roman and Greek History and Philosophy, both ancient ( Plato and Aristotle ) and modern.

He is the author of " Marx and Aristotle ", in Alex Callinicos's " Marxist Theory " as well as of several books, including Moral Differences: Truth, Justice, and Conscience in a World of Conflict ( Princeton, 1992 ), Fact and Method: Explanation, Confirmation, and Reality in the Natural and the Social Sciences ( Princeton, 1987 ), and Analyzing Marx: Morality, Power, and History ( Princeton, 1984 ).