Although Wittgenstein largely disregarded Aristotle ( Ray Monk's biography suggests that he never read Aristotle at all ) it seems that they shared some anti-Platonist views on the universal / particular issue regarding primary substances.

: Moreover, the Church had the true faith for more than twelve hundred years, during which time the holy Fathers never once mentioned this transubstantiation — certainly, a monstrous word for a monstrous idea — until the pseudo-philosophy of Aristotle became rampant in the Church these last three hundred years.

According to Aristotle, the process of dividing a continuum need never come to an end.

This story is, however, contradicted by Aristocles, who asserts that he never mentioned Aristotle but with the greatest respect.

Cynics with long dirty beards to indicate their " strict indifference to all external goods and social customs "; Stoics occasionally trimming and washing their beards in accord with their view " that it is acceptable to prefer certain external goods so long as they are never valued above virtue "; Peripatetics took great care of their beards believing in accord with Aristotle that " external goods and social status were necessary for the good life together with virtue ".

Aristotle believed no general rule on lying was possible, because anybody who advocated lying could never be believed, he said.

God, however, has full knowledge ( omniscience ) and therefore by definition ( that of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle as well as Aquinas ) can never will anything other than what is good.

" If the philosophy of Aristotle, as revived and enriched by St. Thomas and his school, may rightly be called the Christian philosophy, both because the church is never weary of putting it forward as the only true philosophy and because it harmonizes perfectly with the truths of faith, nevertheless it is proposed here for the reader's acceptance not because it is Christian, but because it is demonstrably true.

By contrast, the authoritarian rulers were never called Basileus in classical Greece, but archon or tyrant ; although Pheidon of Argos is described by Aristotle as a basileus who made himself a tyrant.

( One could say ' If Aristotle had died young, he would never have taught Alexander the Great.

The remaining divisions planned for Being and Time ( particularly the divisions on time and being, Kant, and Aristotle ) were never published, although in many respects they are addressed in one form or another in Heidegger's other works.

Although Aristotle was never an unquestioned authority ( he was more often than not a springboard for discussion, and his opinions were often discussed along those of others, or the teaching of Holy Scripture ), medieval lectures in physics consisted of reading Aristotle ’ s Physics, lessons in moral philosophy consisted of examinations of his Nicomachean Ethics ( and often his Politics ), and metaphysics was approached through his Metaphysics.

Hence, God, for Aristotle, is perfect because He never changes, but is eternally complete.

Sepúlveda defended the position of the colonists, although he had never been to America, claiming that the Amerindians were " natural slaves " as defined by Aristotle in Book I of Politics.

( But while both Aristotle and Thomas endorsed versions of the cosmological argument, Aristotle never formulated the kalam argument, which is just one type of cosmological argument, and Aquinas rejects it, as he believes we cannot prove the temporal beginning of the cosmos, although we can prove creation -- even an infinite universe would be a created universe, as in Aristotle.

It is true that matter can never be completely resolved into motion, but the irreducible remainder may be treated, like Aristotle, as an abstraction we asymptotically approach but never reach.

However, Aristotle never claimed that = A, 1 = 1, or A ≡ A, none of which correspond symbolically to " the fact that a thing is itself ," for the simple reason that Aristotle never explicitly made the claim " thing is thing.

In particular they pointed out a number of doubts about the physical reasons of the radial gravity, and hesitated in accepting the physical reasons proposed by Aristotle or Stoicism.

Aristotle hesitated to embrace bivalence for such future contingents ; Chrysippus, the Stoic logician, did embrace bivalence for this and all other propositions.

Plutarch claims that Aristotle says that Melissus had also defeated Pericles in an earlier battle.

Much of what remains of Melissus ’ philosophical treatise, On Nature, has been preserved by Simplicius in his commentaries on Aristotle ’ s Physics and On the Heavens, and several summaries of his philosophy have come down to us.

Furthermore, because of its clear and concise nature, Melissus ' version of Eleatic philosophy was the chief source for its presentation in the works of Plato and Aristotle.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

It may be traced to the ancient Ionian philosophers ( particularly Anaximenes ), from whom Aristotle, Hegel and Engels inherited the concept.

He was a contemporary of Aristotle, against whom he wrote with great bitterness.

In Plato, knowledge of whom came to Wycliffe through Saint Augustine, he saw traces of a knowledge of the Trinity, and he championed the doctrine of ideas as against Aristotle.

Khomeini studied Greek Philosophy and was influenced by both the philosophy of Aristotle, whom he regarded as the founder of logic, and Plato, whose views " in the field of divinity " he regarded as " grave and solid ".

He despised Greek philosophy, and, far from looking at Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek thinkers whom he quotes as forerunners of Christ and the Gospel, he pronounces them the patriarchal forefathers of the heretics ( De anima, iii .).

He was a disciple of Aristotle, and a friend of Theophrastus, to whom he dedicated some of his writings.

Aristotle in his will made him guardian of his children, including Nicomachus with whom he was close.

He learned music from his father, and having then been instructed by Lamprus of Erythrae and Xenophilus the Pythagorean, he finally became a pupil of Aristotle, whom he appears to have rivaled in the variety of his studies.

Of Aristotle he possessed the whole of the Organon in Latin ; he is, indeed, the first of the medieval writers of note to whom the whole was known.

Plethon derides Aristotle for discussing unimportant matters such as shellfish and embryos while failing to credit God with creating the universe, for believing the heavens are composed of a fifth element, and for his view that contemplation was the greatest pleasure ; the latter aligned him with Epicurus, Plethon argued, and he attributed this same pleasure-seeking to monks, whom he accused of laziness.

At that time, the college's teachings were based on those of Aristotle, whom Newton supplemented with modern philosophers such as Descartes and astronomers such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler.

He learned the rudiments of Latin at the grammar school of Montrose, after leaving which he learned Greek for two years under Pierre de Marsilliers, a Frenchman whom John Erskine of Dun had persuaded to settle at Montrose ; such was Melville's proficiency that on going to the University of St Andrews he astonished the professors by using the Greek text of Aristotle, which no one else there understood.

His reading ranges from Arabian philosophers and naturalists to Aristotle, Eusebius, Cicero, Seneca, Julius Caesar ( whom he calls Julius Celsus ), and even the Jew, Peter Alphonso.

With these men, none of whom was an orthodox Sunni, he shared an admiration for philosophy and especially for Aristotle, and the Greek and Hindu sciences of antiquity ( before Islam ).

Alexander derived his concept of ` Asia ' from the teaching of Aristotle, for whom ` the inhabited earth ' was surrounded by ` the Great sea ' Ocean, and was divided into three areas-` Europe, Libya and Asia.

A number of distinguished men too are named, whom he is said to have drawn away from Theophrastus, Aristotle of Cyrene, and others, and attached to himself ; among others Crates the Cynic, and Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school.

Mrs. Pollifax is called upon by the CIA to undertake another mission ; this time to photograph members of a safari in Zambia, one of whom is an international assassin nicknamed Aristotle.

Trendelenburg's philosophizing is conditioned throughout by his loving study of Plato and Aristotle, whom he regards not as opponents but as building jointly on the broad basis of idealism.

One of the first ecologists whose writings survive may have been Aristotle or perhaps his student, Theophrastus, both of whom had interest in many species of animals.

In his skeptical consideration of such dreams, Aristotle argues that, although " the sender of such dreams should be God ," it is nonetheless the case " that those to whom he sends them are not the best and wisest, but merely commonplace persons " ( i, 462b20-22 ).

For each emotion, Aristotle discusses the person ’ s state of mind, against whom one directs the emotion, and for what reasons ( Book 2. 1. 9 ).

In this way, Aristotle proceeds to define each emotion, assess the state of mind for those experiencing the emotion, determine to whom people direct the emotion, and reveal their reasoning behind the emotion.