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  2. Rational animal - Wikipedia

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    While the Latin term itself originates in scholasticism, it reflects the Aristotelian view of man as a creature distinguished by a rational principle.In the Nicomachean Ethics I.13, Aristotle states that the human being has a rational principle (Greek: λόγον ἔχον), on top of the nutritive life shared with plants, and the instinctual life shared with other animals, i. e., the ability ...

  3. Hylomorphism - Wikipedia

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    For Aristotle, a "substance" (ousia) is an individual thing—for example, an individual man or an individual horse. [60] Within every physical substance, the substantial form determines what kind of thing the physical substance is by actualizing prime matter as individualized by the causes of that thing's coming to be.

  4. Aristotelian ethics - Wikipedia

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    Like many ethicists, Aristotle regards excellent activity as pleasurable for the man of virtue. For example, Aristotle thinks that the man whose appetites are in the correct order takes pleasure in acting moderately. Aristotle emphasized that virtue is practical, and that the purpose of ethics is to become good, not merely to know.

  5. Essentialism - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle (384–322 BC) applied the term essence to that which things in a category have in common and without which they cannot be members of that category (for example, rationality is the essence of man; without rationality a creature cannot be a man). In his critique of Aristotle's philosophy, Bertrand Russell said that his concept of ...

  6. 50 Aristotle Quotes on Philosophy, Virtue and Education - AOL

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    6. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” 7. “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of ...

  7. Definition of man - Wikipedia

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    This explains man's ability to condense symbols into categories that can be understood by others to include a variety of other symbols. The example he gives is using the word furniture to refer to chairs, tables, etc. [4] Burke's defining of man in these terms leads to man's quest for identity and social belonging. [5]

  8. Topics (Aristotle) - Wikipedia

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    In his treatise Topics, Aristotle does not explicitly define topic, though it is "at least primarily a strategy for argument not infrequently justified or explained by a principle". [2] He characterises it in the Rhetoric [ 3 ] thus: "I call the same thing element and topic; for an element or a topic is a heading under which many enthymemes fall."

  9. Four causes - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle on definition. By Marguerite Deslauriers, p. 81; Philosophy in the ancient world: an introduction. By James A. Arieti. p. 201. Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics. By Joseph Owens and Etienne Gilson. Aitia as generative factor in Aristotle's philosophy; A Compass for the Imagination, by Harold C. Morris.