Where the laws are not authoritative demagogues arise. For the populace becomes a monarch when it turns from many into a single composite, since the many are in authority not as particular persons but all together.
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384 – 322 BC
The founder of formal logic, Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 BC), was also an astounding scientist, who pioneered the study of zoology. Indeed, his scope of intellect ranged from ethics to aesthetics, logic and biology and everything in between. He enrolled in Plato’s Academy when he was 17 and devoted his entire life to study. After Plato’s death, Aristotle went on to be the private tutor to Alexander the Great for at a time, and then, with Alexander’s permission, built his own academy in Lyceum.
At the school, Aristotle was known to lecture while walking about the campus, which gave rise to his students being dubbed, “Peripatetics,” or those who travel from place to place. The school housed one of the most impressive libraries of the ancient world, and offered open and free lectures to the public.
Christian scholasticism and Medieval Islamic philosophy were rooted in Aristotle’s philosophical and scientific systems. He formalized universal principles of logic that used deduction and inference to form logical arguments, his most famous being syllogism.
Despite only 31 of his 200 manuscripts remaining today, Aristotle’s legacy remains immeasurably far-reaching as his arguments touched on almost every aspect of human knowledge, and philosopher’s continue to debate, interpret and teach his principles.
If, then, “substance” is not attributed to anything, but other things are attributed to it, how does “substance” mean what is rather than what is not?
There seems to be in us a sort of affinity to musical modes and rhythms, which makes some philosophers say that the soul is a tuning, others, that it possesses tuning.
Nevertheless, some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
Whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.
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For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason is the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.
By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for everybody; by the mean relative to us, that amount which is neither too much nor too little, and this is not one and the same for everybody.