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18 Μαρ 2000 · Aristotle’s logic, especially his theory of the syllogism, has had an unparalleled influence on the history of Western thought. It did not always hold this position: in the Hellenistic period, Stoic logic, and in particular the work of Chrysippus, took pride of place.
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Ancient commentators regarded logic as a widely-applicable instrument or method for careful thinking. They grouped Aristotle’s six logical treatises into a sort of manual they called the Organon (Greek for “tool”).
Method in Psychology. These reflections on method in psychology bring into focus Aristotle’s decision to describe psychic phenomena in terms of his broader explanatory framework: he articulates his account of the soul and its faculties as special cases of his general hylomorphism.
For Aristotle, then, logic is the instrument (the "organon") by means of which we come to know anything. He proposed as formal rules for correct reasoning the basic principles of the categorical logic that was universally accepted by Western philosophers until the nineteenth century.
It is fundamental to Aristotle’s way of thinking about knowledge that it is in this way object directed, where the notion of object is a broad one that includes facts, particulars, theories and ethical norms. Aristotle frequently characterizes different types of knowledge by the types of objects they are directed at.
14 Νοε 2023 · This article contains a summary of the major ideas of the philosophy of Aristotle. Read on to learn about how Aristotle differed from his teacher, Plato, and his contributions to Western thought.
Introduction. My aim in this paper is to understand certain features of Aristotle’s concep-tion of practical reason, that is, of the kind of reason that he tells us is involved in motivating and guiding human behavior.
