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11 matches to Aristotle
Aristotle. 384-322BC. Greek philosopher, founder of Peripatetics: Unified theory of knowledge. Matter, potentially alive, strives to attain its living form. Stressed observation and logic. Deductive Reasoning. Free Will.
Boethius. 475-524. Roman translator of Aristotle. Neoplatonic. Stoic. Consolation of Philosophy 523 (while imprisoned).
Kindl. -c870. Arab philosopher. Translated Aristotle.
Lyceum. c335BC. Athenian school founded by Aristotle, called ’Peripatetics’.
Nominalism. Philosophy. Abstractions do not exist. Things are their names. Vs Realists. Aristotle. Roscelin. Hobbes.
Physiognomism. Belief in the relationship between personality types and facial characteristics. Lavater. Aristotle.
Ramus, Petrus. 1515-72. French humanist, logician. Reforms of Aristotelian logic.
Teleological Argument. God exists as master planner, because universe exhibits purpose. Duty derives from what is good as end to be achieved. Aristotle. Kant.
Theophrastus. c372-287BC. Greek philosopher. Led Peripatetics after Aristotle.
Thomas Aquinas, St. 1225-74. Italian Dominican scholar. 5 Proofs of God. An eternal law governs all physical and moral behaviour. Summa Theologica. Thomism. Reconciled Aristotle’s reason with Christian faith.
Vitalism. Bergson’s theory of evolution. Life force differentiates living things from others. Aristotle.