Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Reflection 14

Aristotle was a student of the Greek philosopher Plato. Aristotle refuted much of his predecessor teachings. He was a logic thinking philosopher. He came up with the idea of placing things into groups based on similarities.
Aristotle believed that there were four causes. He explained them to as; the formal cause, the material, final cause and the efficient cause. Aristotle believed that humans all want to be happy; that most do not perform the required things to bring about this happiness. He also believed that it is normal for humans to seek about their happiness.
Aristotle believed that the great chain of being was where all things began. He placed things into categories. He viewed all things as unchanging and ranged from the highest to the lowest. His aim was to relate all living things to each other. With that numerous misconceptions were coined.

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