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| Aristotle (384-322 BCE.) Overview, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
Aristotle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Aristotle (... 384–March 7 322 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, who studied with Plato and taught Alexander the Great. He wrote books on many subjects, including physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, government, and biology. Aristotle, along with Plato and Socrates, is generally considered one of the most influential of ancient Greek philosophers. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. The writings of Plato and Aristotle founded two of the most important schools of Ancient philosophy. ..." |
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| 384 B.C.E., in Stagira, Macedonia, Greece |
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| 322 B.C.E., in Chalcis, Euboea, Greece |
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Dialectics and Liberty [PDF], by Chris Matthew Sciabarra, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Sep 2005
Related Topics: Dialectics, Personal Responsibility, Ayn Rand
"In fact, the father of dialectics, the man whom Hegel himself called the 'fountainhead' of dialectical inquiry, was Aristotle. In works such as the Topics—the very first theoretical treatise on dialectics—Aristotle presented numerous techniques by which one might gain a more complete picture of an issue by varying one's 'point of view.'" |
The Philosophical Origins of Austrian Economics, by David Gordon, Mises.org Daily Article, 17 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Austrian Economics
"Aristotle also discusses the necessity of self-evident principles in the Nicomachean Ethics. He notes that to justify a proposition, one would normally proceed by citing another proposition. But if matters are left at this, the task is not finished. What in turn justifies the proposition advanced in support of one's original claim? ..." |
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Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation
by Henry Babcock Veatch, 1974 |
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Aristotle's First Principles
by Terence Irwin, 1988 |
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Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra, 2000
Related Topics: Libertarianism, Dialectics, Murray N. Rothbard |
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A New Aristotle Reader
Related Topic: Philosophy |
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