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  2. Theory of forms - Wikipedia

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    Plato distinguished between real and non-real "existing things", where the latter term is used of substance. The figures that the artificer places in the gold are not substance, but gold is. Aristotle stated that, for Plato, all things studied by the sciences have Form and asserted that Plato considered only substance to have Form.

  3. Predication (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    It was argued that the relationship resembled the logical analysis of a sentence wherein the division of subject and predicate arises spontaneously. [4] It was Aristotle who posited that the division between subject and predicate is fundamental and that there is no truth unless a property is "predicated of" something. [4]

  4. Ancient Greek philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle is often portrayed as disagreeing with his teacher Plato (e.g., in Raphael's School of Athens). He criticizes the regimes described in Plato's Republic and Laws, [62] and refers to the theory of forms as "empty words and poetic metaphors". [63] He is generally presented as giving greater weight to empirical observation and practical ...

  5. The Cave and the Light - Wikipedia

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    The book provides a detailed comparison between Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics. In addition to Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, the book covers the competing and successive Hellenistic schools of philosophy: Epicureans, Stoics, Cynics, and Skeptics. Herman attributes political, religious, and philosophical changes throughout ...

  6. Great chain of being - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle's non-religious concept of higher and lower organisms was taken up by natural philosophers during the Scholastic period to form the basis of the Scala Naturae. The scala allowed for an ordering of beings, thus forming a basis for classification where each kind of mineral, plant and animal could be slotted into place. In medieval times ...

  7. Cardinal virtues - Wikipedia

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    Plato sometimes [c] lists holiness (hosiotes, eusebeia, aidos) amongst the cardinal virtues. He especially associates holiness with justice, but leaves their precise relationship unexplained. In Aristotle's Rhetoric, we read: The forms of Virtue are justice, courage, temperance, magnificence, magnanimity, liberality, gentleness, prudence, wisdom.

  8. Plato - Wikipedia

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    Plato Roman copy of a portrait bust c. 370 BC Born 428/427 or 424/423 BC Athens Died 348 BC (aged c. 75–80) Athens Notable work Euthyphro Apology Crito Phaedo Meno Protagoras Gorgias Symposium Phaedrus Parmenides Theaetetus Republic Timaeus Laws Era Ancient Greek philosophy School Platonic Academy Notable students Aristotle Main interests Epistemology, Metaphysics Political philosophy ...

  9. Nous - Wikipedia

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    For him, the possibility of understanding rests on the relationship between intellect and sense perception. Aristotle's remarks on the concept of what came to be called the "active intellect" and "passive intellect" (along with various other terms) are amongst "the most intensely studied sentences in the history of philosophy". [26]