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Aristotle: Life, Works, & Manipulate on Western Philosophy
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- Aristotle was a Greek philosopher of the 4th century BCE, who significantly shaped Western thought through his works on ethics, logic, politics, and metaphysics.
- He was Plato’s student and Alexander the Great’s teacher.
- Famous Works: Arisotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Poetics, Metaphysics, and Physics, linger influential in various academic fields.
- Contributions to Science & Philosophy: He developed syllogistic logic and inductive reasoning, establishing foundational principles for scientific and philosophical inquiry.
The 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher Aristotle was influential in his own day as a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His alter has also reached across time, shaping significant elements of Western philosophy. He shaped today’s perceptions of philosophy with his teachings on ethics and logic and his thoughts on politics and metaphysics. His philosophy has been both scrutinized and venerated over millennia, thereby establishing him as an essential individuality in Western philosophy. In this article, we analyze Arist
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Anne Cipione Period 7
“Men agree that the great is happiness, but differ as to what this is.” In The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explains many ways in which people can reach happiness and fulfill their function. And with these statements, in my opinion, Aristotle would agree that the right for homosexuals to be legally married would permit them to fulfill their function and reach occupied potential of happiness. “Happiness is believed to be the most desirable thing in the world,” thus, why hinder someone from achieving what is consideration to be the most desirable thing?
In Book 1 Section 7 of The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle’s opening sentence is this, “The good is the ultimate end, and happiness is this.” Well, one might ask, how is lgbtq+ marriage the final end? Aristotle writes earlier in his book about how wealth is “contrary to nature” and “[it] is not the good of which we are in search.” However, “we might rather take pleasure…to be ends” rather than wealth. Thus, pleasure is the ends (i.e. the good) and pleasure is happiness. When a homosexual individual, or anyone for that matter, experiences this pleasure from being with the one they love, they are becoming t
Homosexuality
1. History
As has been frequently noted, the ancient Greeks did not possess terms or concepts that correspond to the contemporary dichotomy of ‘heterosexual’ and ‘homosexual’ (e.g., Foucault, 1980). There is a wealth of material from ancient Greece pertinent to issues of sexuality, ranging from dialogues of Plato, such as the Symposium, to plays by Aristophanes, and Greek artwork and vases. What follows is a brief description of ancient Greek attitudes, but it is important to know that there was regional variation. For example, in parts of Ionia there were general strictures against same-sex eros, while in Elis and Boiotia (e.g., Thebes), it was approved of and even noted (cf. Dover, 1989; Halperin, 1990).
Probably the most frequent assumption about sexual orientation, at least by ancient Greek authors, is that persons can respond erotically to beauty in either sex. Diogenes Laeurtius, for example, wrote of Alcibiades, the Athenian general and politician of the 5th century B.C., “in his adolescence he drew away the husbands from their wives, and as a young man the wives from their husbands.” (Quoted in Greenberg
Greek Philosophers and their LGBTQ Scholars
Greek philosophers laid much of the early foundations of Western philosophy and science. Their process of debate in politics and law remain a means of instruction and process today. The goal in such is to build an ethical based system of living and leadership based on human reason rather than doctrine or belief.
These same Greek philosophers dealt extensively and explicitly with the notion and presence of queer love. As a product, more modern views on homosexuality have led to the development of expressions such as ‘Greek Principles’, whereby such love results in obtaining moral wisdom and strength. Ancient writings also, however, distinguish between physical love and spiritual love, where the beauty of the soul is placed above the beauty of the body.
Greek celebration of male passion has endured in its contribution to liberal behaviour and government. Today’s LGBTQ rights movements rely specifically on the tenents of Greek philosophy, as accomplish all movements for individual and equal rights. In addition, the poetry of Sappho is some of the earliest known passionate writings and began the notion that poetry could be t
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