While bad luck can affect happiness, a truly happy person, he believed, learns to cultivate habits and behaviors that help him (or her) to keep bad luck in perspective. Our happiness is not a state but but an activity, and it’s determined by our ability to live a life that enables us to use and develop our reason. On happiness: In his treatises on ethics, Aristotle aimed to discover the best way to live life and give it meaning - “the supreme good for man,” in his words - which he determined was the pursuit of happiness. Eudemian Ethics is another of Aristotle’s major treatises on the behavior and judgment that constitute “good living.” That said, it was up to the individual to reason cautiously while developing his or her own judgment.
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In Nichomachean Ethics, which is believed to have been named in tribute to Aristotle’s son, Nicomachus, Aristotle prescribed a moral code of conduct for what he called “good living.” He asserted that good living to some degree defied the more restrictive laws of logic, since the real world poses circumstances that can present a conflict of personal values. 'Nicomachean Ethics' and 'Eudemian Ethics'
His book explores the foundation of storymaking, including character development, plot and storyline. Compared to philosophy, which presents ideas, poetry is an imitative use of language, rhythm and harmony that represents objects and events in the world, Aristotle posited. Poetics is a scientific study of writing and poetry where Aristotle observes, analyzes and defines mostly tragedy and epic poetry. Most date to Aristotle’s time at the Lyceum. Of Aristotle’s estimated 200 works, only 31 are still in circulation. His student Theophrastus reportedly looked after Aristotle’s writings and later passed them to his own student Neleus, who stored them in a vault to protect them from moisture until they were taken to Rome and used by scholars there. They consist of dialogues, records of scientific observations and systematic works. The frontispiece of nearly every edition shows a hirsute woman and child by the desk of a scholar, most likely depicting popular notions of the time about the causes of birth defects.Aristotle wrote an estimated 200 works, most in the form of notes and manuscript drafts touching on reasoning, rhetoric, politics, ethics, science and psychology. Aristotle’s name was most likely used in order to add legitimacy to the work by claiming it had ancient, scientific sources. Pseudo-Aristotle Aristotle’s Master-piece improved … (London: Printed, and sold by the booksellers, ).Īristotle’s Master-piece first appeared in England in the 1690s as a popular guide to human reproduction it was later published in more than 100 editions.
This early edition of Aristotle includes the Greek texts of his treatises on physics, dreams, and the soul. This first Latin edition of Aristotle’s De animalibus was translated by Theodore Gaza, a Greek refugee to Italy after the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Aristotle wrote extensively on animal life and both sexual and asexual reproduction, making him in many ways the founder of Western natural philosophy. He wrote extensively on the soul, classifying the souls of different forms of life and inanimate objects, including the earth and the heavens. His treatises on human anatomy are lost, but his many works on animals advocate direct observation and anatomical comparisons between species through dissection. After Alexander's death, Aristotle was forced to flee Athens to the nearby island of Euboea, where he died soon afterwards in 322 B.C.EĪristotle's writings cover a wide variety of subjects, from human and animal anatomy, to metaphysics, statesmanship, and poetry. After Alexander conquered Athens and the rest of the Middle East and Egypt, Aristotle returned to Athens to found the Lyceum, a school similar to Plato's Academy. He eventually returned to Macedonia, where he was teacher to the young Alexander the Great. Unlike Plato, Aristotle felt that one could, and in fact must, trust one's senses in the investigation of knowledge and reality.Īt Plato's death, Aristotle was not chosen to be his successor as head of the Academy and he left Athens. Once a student of Plato at his Academy in Athens, Aristotle adopted his own methods of inquiry different from that of his teacher. the son of a physician at Stageira in Macedonia, Aristotle was one of the most noted philosophers and scientists of the ancient world.
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