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    Aristotle

    By Alfred Taylor

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    But we call a man well read if his mind is stored with the verse of poets and the prose of historians, even though he were ignorant of the name of Descartes or Kant. Yet there are a few philosophers whose influence on thought and language has been so extensive that no one who reads can be ignorant of their names, and that every man who speaks the language of educated Europeans is constantly using their vocabulary. Among this few Aristotle holds not the lowest place.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJovian Press
    Release dateNov 28, 2017
    ISBN9781537800035
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      This book is a good general introduction to the thoughts of Aristotle. It discusses the categories that he divided his philosophy into and gives an overview of each one. The similarities and differences between the thought of Aristotle and Plato are mentioned, and how the thinking of the former diverged from that of the latter with time.The book does a good job of pointing out the strengths of Aristotles work, such as how his system of logic and ability to collect facts have influenced subsequent philosophers. Also noteworthy is quite how many things he was wrong about, things that Plato and other predecessors of Aristotle were right about. For example, Aristotle refused to believe that the earth wasn't at the centre of the solar system, he thought that the heart not the brain was the organ of thought, that different types of matter did not gain their physical properties from different geometric arrangement of "corpuscles" or atoms (as Plato and the Pythagoreans believed, in line with modern chemistry), and that there could not be empty space between matter - only a qualitative rarefaction. He also favoured the Empedoclean elements of earth, water, air and fire, which were even considered out of date in the time of Aristotle by the rest of the Academy. One of the more profound observations of Aristotle, which is to this day a source of wonder for biochemists and biologists, is that there is no clear demarcation between what is living and what is not living. Living things exist from the immobile non-thinking barely sensitive and minute creature, to the large, mobile, conscious and thinking man, with millions of gradations of plant of animal between.What comes across as curious is how wrong he could be about so many things which were correctly taught by his predecessors, while on the other hand he wrote and taught well about an incomparable number of things across a large number of disciplines. He was of sorts the first scientist, who rigourously and actively collected facts and sought explanations of them. In this sense he was a good scientist, but he was also a bad scientist because most of his explanations were wrong, despite more correct explanations being already around. Aristotle also comes across as disliking maths, which partly explains why he disagreed with Plato and the Pythagoreans about certain things.The treatment of Aristotle in this book may be biased, as Taylor is primarily a Platonist, and I may have read it as a Platonist, but I don't think that the book goes as far as to be unfair to Aristotle. The distinctions between matter and form, his logic, his categories, his ethics, and his methods, have all had some positive influence on later philosophy.