However, Aristotle also writes, " since it is impossible that contradictories should be at the same time true of the same thing, obviously contraries also cannot belong at the same time to the same thing " ( Book IV, CH 6, p. 531 ).

Paul Waldau writes that the overriding of animals ' interests was traditionally justified by arguing that they existed for human use ; Aristotle made this claim in the 4th century BCE, as did Cicero in the 1st century CE.

Aristotle writes of the unscribed tablet in what is probably the first textbook of psychology in the Western canon, his treatise " Περί Ψυχῆς " ( De Anima or On the Soul, Book III, chapter 4 ).

* Aristotle writes Ta Ethika on virtue and moral character ( approximate date ).

* Aristoxenus, a Greek peripatetic philosopher, and writer on music and rhythm, and a pupil of Aristotle, writes a treatise on music called the " Elements of Harmony ".

Aristotle writes about an influence of ambiguities on arguments and also about an influence of ambiguities depending on either combination or division of words.

Indeed, Aristotle writes, " It is clear that the soul, or at least some parts of it ( if it is divisible ), cannot be separated from the body.

Indeed, Aristotle writes, " It is clear that the soul, or at least some parts of it ( if it is divisible ), cannot be separated from the body.

Michael Davis, a translator and commentator of Aristotle writes:

It was also current among the first generation of his pupils, such as Aristotle, who writes, " Those who provide necessaries for an individual are slaves, and those who provide them for society are handicraftsmen and day-laborers.

For example Aristotle writes " that which people know to happen or not to happen, or to be or not to be, mostly in a particular way, is likely, for example, that the envious are malevolent or that those who are loved are affectionate.

Aristotle ( Poetics 5. 1449b5 ) writes that he and Phormis invented comic plots ( muthos ).

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.

Aristotle writes that " Of the dispositions described above, the deliberate avoidance of pain is rather a kind of softness ( malakia ); the deliberate pursuit of pleasure is profligacy in the strict sense.

In her introduction to the 1985 facsimile edition E. J. Ashworth writes that " The young Isaac Newton studied Sanderson's logic at Cambridge, and as late as 1704 " Thomas Heywood of St. John's College, Ashworth adds, recommended Newton " Sanderson or Aristotle himself ".

Aristotle writes, " it is not what has nothing outside it that is infinite, but what always has something outside it " ( 6. 206b33-207a1-2 ).

But Aristotle kept the principle of levels and even augmented it by describing in the Poetics what kinds of character and action must be imitated if the play is to be a vehicle of serious and important human truths.

Even more important, in his Poetics, Aristotle differs somewhat from Plato when he moves in the direction of treating literature as a unique thing, separate and apart from its causes and its effects.

Throughout the rest of the Poetics, Aristotle continues to discuss the characteristics of these six parts and their interrelationship, and he refers frequently to the standards suggested by his definition of tragedy.

Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

" Psychological reversals are common and sometimes happen so suddenly that inconsistency in characterization is an issue for many critics, such as Aristotle, who cited Iphigenia in Aulis as an example ( Poetics 1454a32 ).

The trochaic tetrameter catalecticfour pairs of trochees per line, with the final syllable omittedwas identified by Aristotle as the original meter of tragic dialogue ( Poetics 1449a21 ).

For example, in Shakespeare's day, plays were usually expected to follow the advice of Aristotle in his Poetics: that a drama should focus on action, not character.

Aristotle remarks in his Poetics that Homer was unique among the poets of his time, focusing on a single unified theme or action in the epic cycle.

Aristotle wrote in the Poetics that " the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

So Aristotle suggested only one unity — that of action — but the prevalent interpretation of his Poetics during the Middle Ages already inclined toward interpreting his comment on time as another " unity ".

Later, in Greek philosophy, Aristotle, in the Poetics ( 1449a, pp. 34 – 35 ), suggested that an ugliness that does not disgust is fundamental to humour.

In the 4th Century BC, Aristotle wrote his Poetics, the first play-writing manual.

Mimēsis is a concept, now popular again in academic discussion, that was particularly prevalent in Plato's works, and within Aristotle, it is discussed mainly in the Poetics.

In the 4th century BC Aristotle wrote the Poetics, a typology and description of literary forms with many specific criticisms of contemporary works of art.

* Aristotle: Poetics, Rhetoric

The work of Aristotle, especially Poetics, was the most important influence upon literary criticism until the late eighteenth century.

* Lodovico Castelvetro: The Poetics of Aristotle Translated and Explained

Writing in 335 BCE ( long after the Golden Age of 5th-century Athenian tragedy ), Aristotle provides the earliest-surviving explanation for the origin of the dramatic art-form in his Poetics, in which he argues that tragedy developed from the improvisations of the leader of choral dithyrambs ( hymns sung and danced in praise of Dionysos, the god of wine and fertility ):

The philosopher Aristotle said in his work Poetics that

In Poetics, Aristotle gave the following definition in ancient Greek of the word " tragedy " ( τραγωδία ):

Meanwhile tragedy, as developed by Athenian dramatists of the calibre of Aeschylus and Sophocles, had begun to emerge as the leading poetic genre, borrowing the literary dialect, the metres and poetic devices of lyric poetry in general and the dithyramb in particular ( Aristotle Poetics IV 1449a ).

In the Poetics Aristotle had merely recommended that action should consist only of the main plot without any subplots, and that the time represented by action should not stretch beyond the length of one day.

Aristotle, Plato's student, wrote dozens of works on many scientific disciplines, but his greatest contribution to literature was likely his Poetics, which lays out his understanding of drama, and thereby establishes the first criteria for literary criticism.

) In the Poetics, Aristotle called both the tragedy and the epic noble, with tragedy serving the essential function of purging strong emotions from the audience through katharsis.

In his Poetics, Aristotle considered plot ( mythos ) the most important element of drama — more important than character, for example.