Aristotle: The Father Of Philosophy

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Aristotle is arguably the most important Philosopher who ever lived. He is known as the father of philosophy. The questions he had back then are still some of the questions that philosophers of today’s world are trying to answer. He focused in on some topics that we still abide by today. Many of his ideas were later proven wrong, but he was the first to say anything about the topics. If he were alive today he would most likely be disappointed that it took so long for anyone to raise questions about what he had to say. Some of his most important ideas had to do from a political standpoint. The focus will be emphasizing the 8 writings or books he had about political ideas. Each book focuses in on a different part of political ideas. It also …show more content…

Aristotle brings up a very difference between the two. Animals don’t have the ability to speak, however, they live just fine without needing that skill. Groups of animals are able to live together without making laws or enforcing justice, but people cannot. Aristotle looked at humans as political animals. Nature by itself is not enough for people to live together. Aristotle thinks how it is possible for humans to live together and he comes up with the big picture of a city. A city without the right laws, justice, and practicing the right virtues makes humans the worst of all animals. However, humans are the best animal when exercise all the right values.
Aristotle regards slavery as a household matter. The question everyone seems to ask is slavery just. Of course today slavery has been overcame and is something that no one should view as just. People who ended up in slavery in Aristotle’s time were in slavery because of defeat in war and if the slaves had children, the children would be considered slaves. However, if slavery never happened the history of Athenian works would be different. In Aristotle’s will he wrote to have his slaves freed when he died and for the time that was a pretty generous thing to …show more content…

Some humans cringe of the idea of God, and some rely on it. Protestants and Catholics killed each other over different beliefs, so this is a very deep topic to get into. Aristotle asks what keeps the universe in everlasting motion. The author gives a great description of how Aristotle begins to understand the concept of God. He says, “IN his view, attractive or final causes operate on intelligences that can respond to them and adopt them as motives for action. When he says that a heavy body that falls to earth wishes to come to rest there, he is speaking metaphorically, not literally” He then says, “Thinking in this way, Aristotle found it necessary to endow the heavenly bodies with intelligences that function as their motors. As the engine of an automobile is its motor, so an intelligence is the motor that keeps a star in motion. But unlike the automobile engine, which must itself be set in motion, the celestial intelligences function as motors through being attracted by the prime mover of the universe.” Trying to understand God is not easy, but Aristotle came up with that the prime mover of the universe, or God, is devoted to matter. This immaterial thing humans call God is also a perfect being and is the mover of the universe. He had a different idea of God versus what the Bible makes God out to

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