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  • Essay / ​The life and works of Aristotle - 994

    Aristotle's work during his lifetime (384-322 BCE) had a great impact on the society of his time, and even today he is ranked among the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a world-class researcher and writer covering many topics and his theories provided insight, met resistance, created debate and generally stimulated the continued interest of a loyal readership. His philosophical influence shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity (AD 284-632) through the Renaissance (AD 1450-1600) and is still studied today with non-antiquarian interests. Although Aristotle covered many topics in depth, my interests lie in his studies of mathematics and logic, living things, and happiness and political associations. Aristotle uses mathematics and mathematical sciences in three important ways in his systematic expositions of the principles of certain subjects (in this case mathematics and/or logic), also called treatises. His treatises presented some of the most difficult mathematics found before the Greco-Roman era, and his errors only concerned conceptually difficult areas such as infinite lines and non-homogeneous magnitudes. His philosophy of mathematics was said to offer important alternatives to Platonism. Platonism is the belief that physical objects are ephemeral representations of unchanging ideas and that these ideas alone give true knowledge as known by the mind. Developments in Greek mathematics towards the end of the 5th and 4th centuries (BCE) included the organization of basic elements and conceptions of proof, number theory, proportion theory, sophisticated uses of construction and l application of geometry and arithmetic in the training of other sciences. It has... middle of paper ...... charged organism, is the final cause of the body. Computation is understood as the idea that any given body is the body because it is organized around a function that serves to unify the entire organism in which it exists. By this he means that the body serves as a tool for carrying out the vital activities characteristic of the type to which the organism belongs. When we put together the idea that the soul is the first acuity of a natural organic body and that it is a substance as the form of a natural body which has life in potential, it is therefore the first acuity of a natural body which has life. in power. Aristotle deploys hylomorphic analyzes not only on the entire organism, but also on the individual composition of the soul. With each of these, Aristotle extends and imposes his basic hylomorphism, sometimes stretching its basic structure almost beyond recognition...