" To support these findings, the assembled judges ( as reported by Coke, who was one of them ) cited as authorities Aristotle, Cicero, and the Apostle Paul ; as well as Bracton, Fortescue, and St. Germain.

Averroes later reported how it was also Ibn Tufail that inspired him to write his famous commentaries on Aristotle:

Aristotle reported that it was believed Alcman died from a pustulant infestation of lice ( phthiriasis ), but he may have been mistaken for the philosopher Alcmaeon of Croton.

In Rome, he continued his teaching activities: it was reported that on one occasion Pope Sixtus IV commissioned Gaza to translate Aristotle ’ s works into Latin, with the pay of a number of gold pieces ; however on receiving the pay Gaza was insulted at the amount paid, and furiously cast the money into the Tiber river.

As reported by such later writers as Aristotle, their explanations tended to center on the material source of things.

Pliny's Natural History reported the tradition attributed to Aristotle, that the Cyclopes were the inventors of masonry towers, giving rise to the designation Cyclopean.

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.

Aristotle named chief executor his student Antipater and left a will in which he asked to be buried next to his wife.

* The tales of King Midas have been told by many with some variations: by John Dryden ; by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Wife of Bath's Tale ; making Midas ' queen the betrayer of the secret ( as Midas ' wife, Aristotle names Demodike ( or Hermodike ) of Kyme ; Eudemus fr.

Later writers, such as Diogenes Laërtius who cite Aristotle as the earliest source, say that Socrates had a second wife called Myrto.

He then married Athina Onassis, née Livanos, former wife of Aristotle Onassis, and daughter of Stavros Livanos.

* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ( 1929 – 1994 ), the wife of U. S. President John F. Kennedy ( later the wife of Aristotle )

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.

Aristotle once said the elephant was " the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind.

Greek scholar Aristotle realized that fossil seashells from rocks were similar to those found on the beach, indicating the fossils were once living animals.

: 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.

Charles ' kingship placed great emphasis on both royal ceremony and scientific political theory, and to contemporaries and posterity his lifestyle at once embodied the reflective life advised by Aristotle and the model of French kingship derived from St Louis, Charlemagne, and Clovis which he had illustrated in his Coronation Book of 1364, now in the British Library.

" He once rejected a small fee to compose a victory ode for the winner of a mule race ( it was not a prestigious event ) but, according to Aristotle, changed his mind when the fee was increased, resulting in this magniloquent opening: " Greetings, daughters of storm-footed horses!

Aristotle once said, " For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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.

The work was considered by the 11th-century Muslim scholar Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi to be " little more than a plagiarism " of Aristotle's Kitāb al-Hayawān, a charge that was once levelled against Aristotle himself with regard to a certain " Asclepiades of Pergamum ".

According to Aristotle in The Politics ( Book I Section 1259a ), Thales of Miletus once cornered the market in olive-oil presses:

Ironically, in the story, Averroës casually observes some children play-acting, then later hears a traveler ineptly describe an actual theatrical performance he once saw in a distant land, but still fails to understand that the tragedies and comedies of which Aristotle writes are a kind of performance art, rather than merely literature.

While we respect both thinkers and their schools of thought, we begin instead from America, the American political tradition in all its genius and profundity, and the relation of our tradition to revealed wisdom and to what the elderly Jefferson once called, rather insouciantly, " the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, etc.

Aristotle rectified an irrational absurdity in reasoning with empiricism using likelihood, " once the irrational has been introduced and an air of likelihood imparted to it, we must accept it in spite of the absurdity.

Aristotle once said the elephant was " the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind ".

The view once held ( on the strength of a fragment of Aristotle, quoted carelessly by Photius ) that the naucrary was invented by Solon may now be regarded as obsolete ( see the Aristotelian Constitution, viii.

It was once thought that he was old enough to have influenced Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BCE ), but there is no strong evidence for this.

A ducal commission, appointed to find a way of ending the interminable strife between rival academic parties, asked Eck to prepare fresh commentaries on Aristotle and Petrus Hispanus.

The book's central concern is the primal question asked by Aristotle, " How should we live?

Metalogical questions have been asked since the time of Aristotle.

The Acarnanians asked for help from both the Athenian general Demosthenes, and the 20 Athenian ships located nearby under the command of Aristotle and Hierophon.

" This seems to echo a statement attributed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laërtius in his The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, where the sage was asked what those who tell lies gain by it and he answered " that when they speak truth they are not believed ".

Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Phidias, The leading statesman of this period was Pericles, who used the tribute paid by the members of the Delian League to build the Parthenon and other great monuments of classical Athens.

But whether Aquinas correctly read Aristotle is a disputed question.

Aristotle also identifies three different types or genres of civic rhetoric: forensic ( also known as judicial, was concerned with determining truth or falsity of events that took place in the past, issues of guilt ), deliberative ( also known as political, was concerned with determining whether or not particular actions should or should not be taken in the future ), and epideictic ( also known as ceremonial, was concerned with praise and blame, values, right and wrong, demonstrating beauty and skill in the present ).

Aristotle goes on to consider whether the tragic character suffers ( pathos ), and whether the tragic character commits the error with knowledge of what he is doing.

According to Timothy Robinson, it is unclear whether Aristotle identifies the soul with the body's structure.

Plutarch tells of a similar story, reporting that it comes from a work entitled On Good Birth, but he expresses doubt as to whether it was written by Aristotle.

One of the oldest and most controversial topics in this area is whether mathematics is internal or external, tracing back to the arguments of Plato, an externalist, and Aristotle, an internalist.

Concerning accuracy and whether ethics can be treated in an objective way, Aristotle points out that the " things that are beautiful and just, about which politics investigates, involve great disagreement and inconsistency, so that they are thought to belong only to convention and not to nature ".

According to Aristotle the potential for this virtue is by nature in humans, but whether virtues come to be present or not is not determined by human nature.

The question for the Chicago School ( as it was for Aristotle ) was always what the purpose of the theory of criticism was, what hypotheses were brought to bear by the theory about the nature of literature ( for instance, whether it consisted of the words alone, or whether it was to be thought of as part of a larger context such as an era or an artist's life ), and the definitions of words ( such as the definition of tragedy or comedy ).

According to a fragment of Aristotle, the first author of Socratic dialogue was Alexamenus of Teos, but we do not know anything else about him, whether Socrates appeared in his works, or how accurate Aristotle was in his antagonistic judgement about him.

Even Neander's final argument with Crites over whether rhyme is suitable in drama depends on Aristotle's Poetics: Neander says that Aristotle demands a verbally artful (" lively ") imitation of nature, while Crites thinks that dramatic imitation ceases to be " just " when it departs from ordinary speech -- i. e. prose or blank verse.

Exactly what this sense is, and whether Aristotle is using it in a consistent manner, have both been long debated.

Aristotle classified constitutions on two grounds: how many citizens had a voice in making the laws ; and whether they did so considering the good of all citizens, or only their own.

The debate of whether or how deaf children should be taught started before even Socrates, Aristotle, and St. Augustine.

Aristotle discusses the parts of the household, which includes slaves, leading to a discussion of whether slavery can ever be just and better for the person enslaved or is always unjust and bad.