Aristotle And Aristotle's Natural Law

Introduction

Aristotle was born in 384 B.C.E. at stature, a Greek colonial town on the Aegean near the Macedonian border and east of the modern city of Salonica (Britannica, encyclopaedia; 1952). He was first trained in medicine, considering his father was a physician of the royal Macedonian family. Upon this, Aristotle, later when to Athens to study philosophy at Plato 's Academy. During his time at this academy, they gave a lot of attention to the problem of politics and legislation and, its more general philosophical interest. Although their ideas were similar, Aristotle rejected Plato 's theories of form. He was more empirically-minded than Plato and Socrates. Aristotle made contributions to physics, biology, politics, agriculture, medicine, botany, dance, theater, ethics, logic and metaphysics. He is also known as the father of ‘natural law. Aristotle believed that what was “just by nature” was not always “just by law” ("Natural Law” Britannica/topic/natural-law. 26 May 2014. Web. 24 Feb. 2016). He believed that the aim of logic is to elaborate a coherent system that allows people to investigate, classify, and evaluate exceptional and atrocious forms of

Web. 24 Feb. 2016). Aristotle separated his ideas into sections such as; the organon, categories, from words into propositions, kinds of propositions, square of opposition, the laws of thought, existential assumptions, form versus content, the syllogism, inductive syllogism, deduction versus induction, science, non-discursive reasoning, rhetoric, fallacies, moral reasoning also including his perception of natural law and the tyranny and rule of law( Groarke, Louis F. "Aristotle: LogIc." Aristotle: Logic| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Web. 24 Feb. 2016.) Aristotle was a realist. He was also a empiricist, who saw perception and the only real avenue to