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Aristotle

Aristotle. By: Forrest Meyer. Aristotle’s Research. Raphael's School of Athens, in the center Plato (left) and Aristotle (right). Three types of writing he wrote were popular writings, memoranda and treatises.

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Aristotle

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  1. Aristotle By: Forrest Meyer

  2. Aristotle’s Research • Raphael's School of Athens, in the center Plato (left) and Aristotle (right). • Three types of writing he wrote were popular writings, memoranda and treatises. • In the philosophy of nature and he believed in physics or the study of things that change. • He studied four causes materials, efficient, formal and final. • Aristotle studied philosophy of nature including psychology and biology. • He also studied the functions of the soul and the relationship between the soul and the body.

  3. Personal Backround • Aristotle was born 384 B.C. in Stagira a small town in northern Greece. • His father Nichomachus was the personal physician of Amyntas II the king of Macedonia. • Aristotle’s parents died when he was a boy so he was raised by a guardian named Proxenus. • When he was 18 years old he entered Plato’s school in Athens, he studied there for 20 years. • He married PithiasHermeia’s adopted daughter. • Hermeia was the ruler of the town he studied. • Philip II asked Aristotle to educate his son Alexander in 343 or 347 B.C. • Alexander became Alexander the great. • Aristotle started a school in 335 B.C. • Alexander died in 323 B.C. Aristotle was charged with impiety. • Aristotle died in Chalis. • He lived from 384 B.C. to 322B.C.

  4. A Highlight of Discoveries Falling bodies descend at the same rate : • Aristotle believed in the law of falling bodies, Galileo proved this law wrong. • Metaphysics the science of things that never change. • Theology or study of God being the most important of metaphysics. • Aristotle claimed that the four elements could be changed by adding or removing heat and or moisture. • Such a change called trans mutation occurred as a result of a chemical reaction.

  5. Fun Facts • Aristotle has been called the master of those who know. • From about 500 to 1100 his works almost completely vanished. • Although his authority has declined still we owe many discoveries of our time to him. • Aristotle studied Ethics and politics. • Aristotle analyzed the different parts of living organisms called teleology. • Aristotle thought it was human nature to be happy and to achieve happiness. • For example, the function of the eye is to see, and the function of a knife is to cut. • Aristotle declared that a human being is "the rational animal" whose function is to reason.

  6. Reactions of Discoveries Map of ancient Greece: • Aristotle believed in transmutation but there was no real reaction. • He also rejected Democritus and this atomic theory. • This had the affect of no one believing Democritus. • Also this side tracked science from atoms until John Dalton. • Also he believed that the Law of falling bodies was correct. • Again this must have side tracked science as well as the atomic theory.

  7. Work Cited • Soll, Ivan. "Aristotle." World Book Student. World Book, 2010. Web. 7 Oct. 2010. • Dine, Michael. "Falling bodies, Law of." World Book Student. World Book, 2010. Web. 17 Oct. 2010. • Usselman, Melvyn C. "Chemistry." World Book Student. World Book, 2010. Web. 17 Oct. 2010.

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