The context of this remark, however, suggests only that Aristotle advised that it could be rhetorically advantageous to appeal to such a law, especially when the " particular " law of ones ' own city was adverse to the case being made, not that there actually was such a law ; Aristotle, moreover, considered two of the three candidates for a universally valid, natural law suggested in this passage to be wrong.

The context of this remark, however, suggests only that Aristotle advised that it could be rhetorically advantageous to appeal to such a law, especially when the " particular " law of one's own city was averse to the case being made, not that there actually was such a law ; Aristotle, moreover, considered two of the three candidates for a universally valid, natural law provided in this passage to be wrong.

Aristotle famously described reason ( with language ) as a part of human nature, which means that it is best for humans to live " politically " meaning in communities of about the size and type of a small city state ( polis in Greek ).

According to Aristotle ( in Politics ), Hippodamos was a pioneer of urban planning and he devised an ideal city to be inhabited by 10, 000 men ( free male citizens ), while the overall population including the correspondent women, children and slaves would reach 50, 000 people.

Aristotle, the great philosopher, also lived in the city.

Of Burgundian origin, the dukes of the petty lordly family from La Roche renewed the ancient city of Plato and Aristotle as a courtly European capital of chivalry.

Temperance is a major Athenian virtue, as advocated by Plato ; self-restraint ( sôphrosune ) is one of his four core virtues of the ideal city, and echoed by Aristotle.

The ancient city of Stageira was the birthplace of the great philosopher Aristotle.

In chapter 2, Aristotle asserts that there is one highest aim, happiness, and it must be the same as politics should have, because what is best for an individual is less beautiful ( kalos ) and divine ( theios ) than what is good for a people ( ethnos ) or city ( polis ).

According to the Vita Aristotelis Marciana, a much mutilated single manuscript in the Biblioteca Nazionale di San Marco in Venice, written about 1300, Aristotle left the city, saying, " I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy " ( Vita Aristotelis, 41 ).

Aristotle has a long passage ( Politics II, 6 ) criticizing the Spartans: the helots keep rebelling ; the Spartan women are luxurious ; the magistrates ( and especially the ephors ) are irresponsible ; reaching decisions by the loudest yell in the apella is silly ; the wealth of the citizens is unequal ( so that too many are losing the resources necessary to be a citizen and a hoplite ); and the Spartiates let each other evade taxes, so the city is poor and the individual citizens greedy.

The campus of the Aristotle University covers 230, 000 square metres and is located near the centre of the city of Thessaloniki.

In the city of Miletus, the Prytanis had enough power that he was able to become a tyrant ( Aristotle Politics V. 5, 1305a17 ).

Stagira (/ stəˈdʒaɪ. rə /) or Stageira was an ancient Greek city on the Chalkidiki peninsula and is chiefly known for being the birthplace of Aristotle, who was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

We have very little information as to its early history: an obscure notice in Aristotle, from which it appears to have at one time fallen under the dominion of the tyrant Phalaris, being the only mention we find of it, until about 490 BCE, when it afforded a temporary refuge to Scythes, tyrant of Zancle, after his expulsion from the latter city.

Himera was celebrated in antiquity as the birthplace of the poet Stesichorus, who appears, from an anecdote preserved by Aristotle, to have taken considerable part in the political affairs of his native city.

Since 1973, Professor D. Pandermalis of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has conducted archaeological research in the city.

In the first book, Aristotle discusses the city ( polis ) or " political community " ( koinōnia politikē ) as opposed to other types of communities and partnerships such as the household and village.

Aristotle questions whether it is sensible to speak of the " virtue " of a slave and whether the " virtues " of a wife and children are the same as those of a man before saying that because the city must be concerned that its women and children be virtuous, the virtues that the father should instill are dependent upon the regime and so the discussion must turn to what has been said about the best regime.

In Politics Aristotle proposed that a city should have both a free square in which " no mechanic or farmer or anyone else like that may be admitted unless summoned by the authorities " and a marketplace " where buying and selling are done ... in a separate place, conveniently situated for all goods sent up from the sea and brought in from the country.

Aristotle considered Apollonia an important example of an oligarchic system, as the descendants of the Greek colonists controlled the city and prevailed over a large serf population of mostly Illyrian origin.

Whereas Plato condemned doxa ( beliefs and opinions ) as a starting point for achieving Truth, Aristotle uses the term endoxa ( commonly held beliefs accepted by the wise / by elder rhetors and / or by the public in general ) to acknowledge the beliefs of the city.

Moreover, the Onassis Foundation officially denies that she ever was an heir to the estate of Aristotle Onassis ; they acknowledge her only as heiress to her mother's fortune.

Aristotle suggested instead that the ( nonphysical ) form-giving principle of an organism was transmitted through semen ( which he considered to be a purified form of blood ) and the mother's menstrual blood, which interacted in the womb to direct an organism's early development.

One tradition, going back to Aristotle, holds that Alcman came to Sparta as a slave to the family of Agesidas (= Hagesidamus?

In this, they are akin to Cynic philosophers such as Antisthenes and Diogenes in denying the importance to eudaimonia of external goods and circumstances, such as were recognized by Aristotle, who thought that severe misfortune ( such as the death of one ’ s family and friends ) could rob even the most virtuous person of eudaimonia.

George Skouras, a physician of the poet, wrote: " He was sick, he was syphilitic " and George Savidis ( 1929 – 1999 ), professor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, who possessed the largest archive about Greek poets, revealed that Karyotakis was syphilitic, and that his brother, Thanasis Karyotakis, thought the disease to be a disgrace to the family.

Happiness in life then, includes the virtues, and Aristotle adds that it would include self-sufficiency ( autarkeia ), not the self-sufficiency of a hermit, but of someone with a family, friends and community.

The first writer to use it ( certainly in any clear and developed way ) was Aristotle, who argued that the natural progression of human beings was from the family via small communities to the polis.

It is from this context where every claim can be called true that stories arose such like that Cleopatra was black ( she was as Greek as the rest of the Ptolemaic family ), or Moses ( see Henri Gamache ) or that Aristotle copied all of his work from the Library of Alexandria ( which was founded after his death ).

He purchased from the family of Neleus of Scepsis in the Troad manuscripts of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus ( including their libraries ), which had been given to Neleus by Theophrastus himself, whose pupil Neleus had been.

Aristotle, in " Politics ", claims that he made changes to land reforms “ family plots and the number of citizens should be kept equal, even if the citizens had all started with plots of unequal size .” We see a staunch tyrannical rule-giver.

* Xanthus, the name of Aristotle Bolt's estate in the 1975 Disney movie Escape to Witch Mountain ( 1975 film )

Aristotle thought of drama as being " an imitation of an action " and of tragedy as " falling from a higher to a lower estate " and so being removed to a less ideal situation in more tragic circumstances than before.

Hence, Aristotle argues, there is no problem in explaining the unity of body and soul, just as there is no problem in explaining the unity of wax and its shape.

Thus, interpreters of Aristotle have faced the problem of explaining how the intellect fits into Aristotle's hylomorphic theory of the soul.

At Basel Reuchlin took his master's degree ( 1477 ), and began to lecture with success, teaching a more classical Latin than was then common in German schools, and explaining Aristotle in Greek.

The most popular story explaining the murder comes from Diodorus Siculus, who expanded upon its mention by Aristotle.

In explaining the propositions of Aristotle, he appends the views held by the Neoplatonist school on the subject in hand, and endeavours to establish the latter against the former.

On page 148, Kennedy reveals the purpose of chapters 12-17 as a demonstration to the speaker of “ how his ethos must attend and adjust to the ethos of varied types of auditor if he is to address them successfully .” As seen in the chapters explaining the various emotions, in chapters 12-17 Aristotle focuses on the necessary means of successfully persuading an audience.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

* I. Mueller, J. Gould, 1999, Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1. 8-13.

* I. Mueller, J. Gould, 1999, Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1. 14-22.

* I. Mueller, 2006, Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1. 23-31.

* I. Mueller, 2006, Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1. 32-46.

It is noteworthy that Socrates ( Plato, Phaedo, 98 B ) accuses Anaxagoras of failing to differentiate between nous and psyche, while Aristotle ( Metaphysics, Book I ) objects that his nous is merely a deus ex machina to which he refuses to attribute design and knowledge.

The works of over five hundred authors, from Aristotle to James I, were digested and methodized, including those of Aquinas, Scotus, and medieval theology, as also those of medieval science, such as De Natura Rerum.

The Ancient Library of Alexandria According to the earliest source of information, the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, the library was initially organized by Demetrius of Phaleron, a student of Aristotle, under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter ( ca. 367 BC — ca. 283 BC ).

Anaximander ( 6th century BC ) was the first philosopher who used the term arche for that which writers from Aristotle on call the " substratum " ( Hippolitus I, 6, I DK B2 ).

Nietzsche in " What I Owe to the Ancients " in his Twilight of the Idols wrote: " The psychology of the orgiastic as an overflowing feeling of life and strength, where even pain still has the effect of a stimulus, gave me the key to the concept of tragic feeling, which had been misunderstood both by Aristotle and even more by modern pessimists.

For Aristotle these physical elements were the centre of the universe and appropriately Cleopatra heralds her coming death when she proclaims, “ I am fire and air ; my other elements / I give to baser life ,” ( 5. 2. 289-90 ).

Vasilatos, I. Megremi, M. Economou-Eliopoulos, 2010 In: CHRISTOFIDES, G., KANTIRANIS, N., KOSTOPOULOS, D. S., CHATZIPETROS A. A., ( eds ), Scientiic Annales, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Sp.

" Aristotle reported that the wife of Hieron once asked Simonides whether it was better to be wealthy or wise, to which he apparently replied: " Wealthy ; for I see the wise spending their days at the doors of the wealthy.

* the mothônes were young servants charged with domestic tasks for young Spartans during their education ( Aristotle, I, 633c ), they remained slaves on reaching adulthood ;

In case you don't remember, then, I remind you that according to Aristotle happiness is not a feeling or sensation but instead is the quality of a whole life.

In his Poetics, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle argues that kinds of poetry ( the term includes drama, flute music, and lyre music for Aristotle ) may be differentiated in three ways: according to their medium, according to their objects, and according to their mode or manner ( section I ); " For the medium being the same, and the objects the same, the poet may imitate by narration — in which case he can either take another personality as Homer does, or speak in his own person, unchanged — or he may present all his characters as living and moving before us " ( section III ).

In his Poetics, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle argues that kinds of " poetry " ( the term includes drama, flute music, and lyre music for Aristotle ) may be differentiated in three ways: according to their medium, according to their objects, and according to their mode or " manner " ( section I ); " For the medium being the same, and the objects the same, the poet may imitate by narration — in which case he can either take another personality as Homer does, or speak in his own person, unchanged — or he may present all his characters as living and moving before us " ( section III ).

This is a word — I think it's an old Hebrew word, but Aristotle was using it — in Webster dictionary it says " material from which elements were formed ".

The pioneers of scientific gait analysis were Aristotle in De Motu Animalium ( On the Gait of Animals ) and much later in 1680, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli also called De Motu Animalium ( I et II ).