Aristotle
Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses, theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of rational inquiry. Dictionary.com

Aristotles View On Imagination
Imagination and Thinking With Judgment Differences
Aristotle makes a clear distinction between the different faculties that animals are capable off. Two off the faculties that he mentions are imagination and the intellect, which are available to only a few animals. In the De Anima he explains what he sees these different faculties as and the differences between them in his view. He particularly mentions the differences between thinking with judgement and imagination. As in Book 3 chapter 3, he describes how that imagining presupposes percepti...

The Greek Philosopher Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher, born in Stagira a Greek colony on the peninsula of Chalcidice and student of the Greek philosopher Plato. His father Nichomachus was physician to Amyntas II, King of Macedonia, father of King Philip II. In is seventeenth year Aristotle was sent to the Academy of Plato in Athens, where he remained for twenty years. After the death of Plato, Aristotle withdrew to Mysia and spent three years with Hermias, the tyrant of Atarneus, whose niece he later married. In 343-342 BC he ...

Aristotle
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), he is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. In 335 BC he founded the Peripatetic school of philosophy in Athens. His writings covered many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, aesthetics, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, morality, biology, and zoology. H...

Nicomachean Ethics
Nicomachean ethics, or virtue ethics as it is often referred to, is an ethical theory put forth by Aristotle in which he zones in on and tries to explain the nature of virtue and happy living. Although it proved to be a widely accepted ethical philosophy for centuries after its postulation, focal shifts from virtue to obligation and rightness are observed in the more modern theories of ethical egoism, social contract, and utilitarianism.