1. Philosophical Encounters When Alexander was about 14 years old, his father King Phillip II decided to tutor him under the guidance of one of the biggest names in contemporary philosophical teaching: Aristotle. At that time, Aristotle had not yet made a name for himself, but he was a know...
These are ready-to-use Aristotle worksheets that are perfect for teaching students about Aristotle of Stagira (l. 384-322 BCE) who was a Greek philosopher who pioneered systematic and scientific examination in literally every area of human knowledge, and was known in his time, as “the man ...
It wasn’t a solely a primitive practice as Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers such as Aristotle also recommended infanticide to control population. Christian and Jewish texts both openly condemned the practice even in their earliest days. Slaves sometimes killed newborns to avoid subjecting them ...
Who is Aristotle? Aristotleis one of the greatest and most well known founders ofWestern philosophyandliterary theory. He was born in Stagira, which is in Northern Greece, in the year 384 B.C.E. At the time of Aristotle's birth, Stagira was under the rule of Macedonia. ...
1. He was taught by Aristotle but had famous run-ins with other philosophers. Getty Images Alexander and Diogenes Alexander’s father, Philip II of Macedon, hiredAristotle, one of history’s greatest philosophers,, to educate the 13-year-old prince. Little is known about Alexander’s three-...
Aristotle is considered to be the first to write about female ejaculation. Galen, the famous Greco-Roman physician and philosopher, also knew about it in the 2nd century AD.[3] Before restrictions were imposed on this type of research, orgasms were produced by direct electrical or chemical stim...
The Correspondence Theory of Truth (referred to throughout this chapter as 'the Theory') has assumed many different forms since Aristotle, developing an argument in Plato's Sophist , first brought it to the forefront of the debate about the nature of truth. Much of the controversy surrounding ...
The reality is that Spartans were not the only ones concerned with deformed infants. In Book 7 of his workPolitics, Aristotle supports infanticide in the case of deformed infants: “As to the exposure and rearing of children, let there be a law that no deformed child shall live.” ...
Brief History of Photography When it first appeared in the 19th century, photography used a few different technologies that had existed for thousands of years. Chinese philosopher Mo Ti and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid knew about the pinhole camera in the 5th century BC. Byzantine mathe...
One popular tale suggests that Galileo Galilei conducted his famous gravity experiments from the tower's slanting heights, dropping cannonballs of different weights to challenge Aristotle's theories – though historians debate whether this actually happened.Another intriguing story tells of medieval ...