Meanwhile, in Britain some people feel so strongly about the suffering even of rats that their threats of violence have forced a construction firm to pull out of building an animal research centre at Oxford University.Spanner, Huw
384--322 bc, Greek philosopher; pupil of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great, and founder of the Peripatetic school at Athens; author of works on logic, ethics, politics, poetics, rhetoric, biology, zoology, and metaphysics. His works influenced Muslim philosophy and science and medieval schola...
Aristotle - Politics, Philosophy, Logic: Turning from the Ethics treatises to their sequel, the Politics, the reader is brought down to earth. “Man is a political animal,” Aristotle observes; human beings are creatures of flesh and blood, rubbing shoul
Speculative philosophy is a type of thinking that relies on an individual's conclusive thoughts, beliefs, and logical practices. Speculative philosophy looks at all of the functions of the universe, including human's existence in it, and applies a logical sense of coherence to them. Aristotle's...
Aristotle was born in 384 BC in a small town on the Northern coast of Greece, Stagira. Undoubtedly, he was one of the most well-known figures in ancient Greek history. Aristotle was an inquisitive man. He wanted to discover everything that could be identified about the natural world. “Th...
In his De regimine principum (1266; On the Government of Princes), he compares society to a ship in need of a helmsman and repeats Aristotle’s definition of man as a social and political animal. Again following Aristotle, he considers oligarchy unjust and democracy evil. Rulers should aim...
he defendedhis own vision of ultimate reality, including the eternal existence ofsubstance.On The Souluses the notion of ahylomorphic compositeto provide a detailed account of thefunctions exhibited by living things—vegetable, animal, and human—and explains the use ofsensationandreasontoachieve genui...
On the one hand, wisdom demands inborn intelligence; but intelligence can be used for evil purposes as well as good ones, and only moral virtue will ensure that the good wins out. 一方面,智慧要求天生的智力;但智力既可以用于善也可以用于恶,只有道德美德才能保证善胜过恶。 On the other hand, ...
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As long as the animal is alive, its head is hard and as it were inflated. It grasps and retains things with the underside of its tentacles, and the membrane between its feet is fully extended. If it gets on to the sand, it can no longer retain its hold." (17) ...