Aristotle had arrived at the real distinction between matter and form, metaphysical components whose interpenetration produces the paradox.

Loïc Wacquant wrote that habitus is an old philosophical notion, originating in the thought of Aristotle, whose notion of hexis (" state ") was translated into habitus by the Medieval Scholastics.

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 ".

Bust of Aristotle, whose Prior Analytics contained an early discussion of this fallacy.

The Attic Greek of the philosopher Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ), whose mentor was Plato, dates from the period of transition from Classical Attic to koine.

' ) This contrast and utter disproportion greatly occupied these philosophers in the philosophemes of the Eleatics, in Plato's doctrine of the Ideas, in the dialectic of the Megarics, and later the scholastics in the dispute between nominalism and realism, whose seed, so late in developing, was already contained in the opposite mental tendencies of Plato and Aristotle.

Thomas Aquinas, more than any other single person, was able to turn theology into a kind of science, in part because he was heavily influenced by Aristotle, whose works were returning to Europe in the 13th century.

With many paradoxes, with many criticisms which are below contempt, and many indecent displays of personal animosity — especially in his reference to Etienne Dolet, over whose death he gloated with brutal malignity — it yet contains acute criticism based on the Poetics of Aristotle, imperator noster ; omnium bonarum artium dictator perpetuus, an influential treatise in the history of literary criticism.

Classical philosophies of the Greeks had already expired and diluted beyond recognition except for small bands of continuators of the traditions of the Pythagoreans, of Plato, and Aristotle ( whose library was lost for centuries ).

Chief among these were Socrates, whose ideas exist primarily in a series of dialogues by his student Plato, who mixed them with his own ; Plato ; and Plato's student, Aristotle.

Cornutus wrote a work on Rhetoric, and a commentary on the Categories of Aristotle, ( πρὸς Ἁθηνόδωρον καὶ Ἀριστοτέλην ) whose philosophy he attacked along with his fellow Stoic Athenodorus.

Aristotle contests that the tragic hero has to be a man “ who is not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error or frailty .” He is not making the hero entirely good in which he can do no wrong but rather has the hero committing an injury or a great wrong leading to his misfortune.

The reason for the request was that many of the copies of Aristotle in Latin then in circulation had originated in Spain ( see Gerard of Cremona ), from Arabic whose texts had often passed through Syriac versions before being re-translated into Arabic.

Cesi envisioned a program of free experiment that was respectful of tradition yet unfettered by blind obedience to any authority, even that of Aristotle and Ptolemy whose theories the new science was calling into question.

The concept of the great chain of being developed by Plato and Aristotle whose ideas were taken up and synthesised by Plotinus.

* Sthenelus: A tragic poet, whose verse was later considered by Aristotle to be lucid but undignified ,< ref > Poetics 1458 < sup > a </ sup > 18-21 Wikisource section XXII s: The Poetics translated by Bywater / 3 # XXII he is mentioned in line 1313 as the epitome of a man who is lacking something.

Nevertheless, Ibn Rushd and Ibn Sina played a major role in saving the works of Aristotle, whose ideas came to dominate the non-religious thought of the Christian and Muslim worlds.

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.

According to Aristotle, in his Poetics we even " enjoy contemplating the most precise images of things whose sight is painful to us.

" This reference transferred into the domain of politics, and in the case of Norcross with his political platform, the Moral Party could similarly be viewed as " American statesmen defend their principles of ' classical republicanism ' with arguments drawn from Aristotle, Publius, and Cicero " added ; those in antiquity whose doctrine framed a moral philosophy.

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.

A final category, omitted here, includes medieval palmistries, astrological and magical texts whose connection to Aristotle is purely fanciful and self-promotional.

According to Aristotle, the heavenly bodies are the most perfect realities, ( or " substances "), whose motions are ruled by principles other than those of bodies in the sublunary sphere.

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.

There were the seeds ( spermata ) or miniatures of wheat and flesh and gold in the primitive mixture ; but these parts, of like nature with their wholes ( the homoiomereiai of Aristotle ), had to be eliminated from the complex mass before they could receive a definite name and character.

Ptolemy and Aristotle theorised that light either shone from the eye to illuminate objects or that light emanated from objects themselves, whereas al-Haytham ( known by the Latin name Alhazen ) suggested that light travels to the eye in rays from different points on an object.

Flinders had concluded that the Terra Australis as hypothesized by Aristotle and Ptolemy did not exist, so he wanted the name applied to what he saw as the next best thing: " Australia ".

Famous scholastics such as Aquinas believed him to be so important they did not refer to him by name, simply calling him " The Commentator " and calling Aristotle " The Philosopher.

He gives several examples purporting to render descriptivism implausible as a theory of how names get their references determined ( e. g., surely Aristotle could have died at age two and so not satisfied any of the descriptions we associate with his name, and yet it would seem wrong to deny that he was Aristotle ).

* Pugsley had an octopus called Aristotle, and Wednesday a large collection of spiders, with only one she mentions in particular by name, called Homer.

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

His given name was Tyrtamus (), but he later became known by the nickname " Theophrastus ," given to him, it is said, by Aristotle to indicate the grace of his conversation ( ancient Greek: Θεός

Besides these writings, Theophrastus was the author of several collections of problems, out of which some things at least have passed into the Problems that have come down to us under the name of Aristotle, and commentaries, partly dialogues, to which probably belonged the Erotikos, Megacles, Callisthenes, and Megarikos, and letters, partly books on mathematical sciences and their history.

Later historians applied the name to significant uses and expressions of elements of Averroes ' doctrines and to the exegetical tradition of Aristotle by Jewish and Christian thinkers as it had come down through the Latin and Hebrew traditions.

More telling is Hephaestion ’ s name being found in a catalogue of Aristotle ’ s correspondences.

Gathered partly ( by translation ) in the fyne outlandish Gardens of Euripides, Ovid, Petrarch, Aristotle and others ; and partly by Invention out of our owne fruitfull Orchardes in Englande, Yelding Sundrie Savours of tragical, comical and moral discourse, bothe pleasaunt and profitable, to the well-smelling name, by London printer Richarde Smith.

More generally, for any given proposition about Aristotle, one can use the name without believing that proposition to be true of Aristotle.

So in fact if Frege's view was " descriptivist ", then he effectively agrees with Russell on most of the apparent " proper names " of ordinary language: Frege thinks that " Aristotle " is a name, with a sense, which is equivalent to some description.

Russell thinks that Aristotle is not really a name, but is ( in disguised form ) just such a description.

He is supposedly named after Simplicius of Cilicia, a sixth-century commentator on Aristotle, but it was suspected the name was a double entendre, as the Italian for " simple " ( as in " simple minded ") is " semplice ".

The genus name Aythya is derived from the Ancient Greek aithuia which refers to a seabird mentioned by Aristotle and others and is thought to refer to a duck, auklet or other seabird.

In philosophy, term logic, also known as traditional logic or Aristotelian logic, is a loose name for the way of doing logic that began with Aristotle and that was dominant until the advent of modern predicate logic in the late nineteenth century.

The binomial name is derived from Greek kerthios, a small tree-dwelling bird described by Aristotle and others, and Latin familiaris, familiar or common.

The binomial name is derived from Greek ; kerthios is a small tree-dwelling bird described by Aristotle and others, and brachydactyla comes from brakhus, " short " and dactulos " finger ", which refers, like the English name, to the fact that this species has shorter toes than the Common Treecreeper.

Antisthenes founded a school at the Cynosarges, from which some say the name Cynic derives ; Plato founded a school that gathered at the Academy, after which the school was named, making the gymnasium famous for hundreds of years ; and at the Lyceum, Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school.