Topic > ​Life and works of Aristotle - 994

Aristotle's work during his lifetime (384-322 BC) had a great impact on the society of his time and even today he is ranked among the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a world-class researcher and writer covering many topics, and his theories provided enlightenment, met with resistance, created debate, and generally stimulated continued interest from consistent readers. Its philosophical influence shaped centuries of philosophy from late antiquity (284-632 AD) to the Renaissance (1450-1600 AD) and is still studied today with non-antiquarian interests. While there are many topics that Aristotle covered extensively, my interests are in his studies of mathematics and logic, living things, happiness, and political association. Aristotle uses mathematics and the mathematical sciences in three important ways in his systematic expositions of certain principles of subjects (in this case mathematics and/or logic), also called treatises. His treatises displayed some of the most difficult mathematics found before the Greco-Roman age, and his errors concerned only conceptually difficult areas such as infinite lines and non-homogeneous quantities. His philosophy of mathematics was said to provide important alternatives to Platonism. Platonism is the belief that physical objects are impermanent representations of immutable ideas and that only these ideas give true knowledge as they are known by the mind. Developments in Greek mathematics around the end of the 5th and 4th centuries (BC) included the organization of the basic elements and conceptions of proof, number theory, the theory of proportions, sophisticated uses of construction, and the application of geometry and arithmetic in the formation of other sciences. It has... half of the paper... it has seized the organism, it is the final cause of the body. By IT we mean the view that any given body is the body it is because it is organized around a function that serves to unify the entire organism it exists within. By this he means that the body serves as an instrument for carrying out the vital activities characteristic of the type to which the organism belongs. If we put together the idea that the soul is the first reality of a natural organic body and that it is a substance as a form of a natural body that has life potentially, then it is the first reality of a natural body that has life in potential. Aristotle applies hyleomorphic analyzes not only to the entire organism, but also to the individual constitution of the soul. With each of these, Aristotle expands and taxes his basic hylomorphism, sometimes straining his basic structure almost beyond recognition.