Essays on Aristotle

The government is made up of both legal and political bodies that control the relationship among the members of the community as well as between the society and members of the outside world. This paper will describe various forms of bad and good governments that…

Pliny the Elder affected the world in many many ways. With everything that he did I think he deserves the “Thinkers” award. Welcome to this journey while you learn about how he impacted the world and how that led him to a wonderful success. Pliny…

Aristotle is known as the father of Realism. To understand fully his work, we should at least have a glimpse of his life in his early days. He was born in 384 B.C.E. in Stagira, Greece. He is a son of a physician at court…

Life is something that seems to start and end simultaneously in one’s teens, as the optimism of your childhood comes clashing with the newfound anxieties of the future. And this is inevitable- teenagers nowadays are forced to lose their individuality in order to fit into…

Art is something that has been known to evoke different emotions from each and every person, how one deals with these emotions though, is up to them. The way we should deal with these emotions evoked, and how we should treat artists who devote their…

Aristotle’s Theory of Substance and It’s Refutation of Plato’s Theory of Forms Aristotle argues in his Theory of Substance that that which we perceive can be placed into categories. In total, Aristotle argues that there are ten categories. The first category is primary ousia, or…

Aristotle begins his analysis of the parts of the soul by examining the Nutrition of the soul. He says that if we are to say what the understanding, the perceptive, or the nutritive part is—first we must define what it is to understand and perceive….

Of all poetic compostions Aristotle ranked Epic and tragedy as the best. From the evidence of the surviving part of his ‘poetics’ we can affirm that Aristotle was more in favour of tragedy than Epic. Aristotle method of approach was analytic, and he dissets the…