Aristotle's Natural Philosophy

What is philosophy? How is it different from science, religion and other human discourse patterns? This course follows the philosophical origin of an ancient Greek philosopher in the Western tradition. We started with a philosopher of nature who was active in the theocratic politics of Ionia in the 6th century BC and was thought to be the first scientist. Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximines made bold recommendations on the final elements of reality, Heraclitus claimed that there is a potential order in the changing world. Elea's Parmenides expressed strong opposition to all these proposals, later Greek theorists (such as Anaxagoras and atomician Democritus) tried to answer this opposition. In Athens of the 5th century, Socrates claimed the importance of basic ethical problems - "How do you live?" - his student Plato and Plato student Aristotle was well designed to explain the reality We developed a philosophy system. The essence of knowledge and human happiness. After Aristotle's death, Hellenistic era, Epicurean and Stoic schools developed and transformed the early tradition. We study the main doctrine of all these thinkers. The first part introduces Plato and his predecessors. In Part 2 we introduce Aristotle and its successors.

Natural materials have substances and shapes, and the process of nature is object oriented. All living creatures, plants, animals contained contain a soul that can move it

Grant confuses the two propositions here - neither is equivalent to methodological naturalism. First of all, he declared, rather than telling us what it means, "Aristotle's natural philosophy should be treated naturally." Supernaturalists can easily agree if it means (as Aristotle said) the correct theme of physics is the natural body. As we saw in part A above, this is equivalent to principle (b) which simply defines science as a systematic study of physical phenomena. This argument does not pose any threat to supernaturalism as it does not claim that science can only explain other physical phenomena and physical phenomena, and adds supernatural. In any case, as we have seen in Akinas' discussion, Aristotle's physics is not naturalistic: it quotes an invisible motivational interpretation of the natural changes that occur in the sky and the earth.

In Aristotle's terminology, "natural philosophy" is a field of philosophy to study natural phenomena, including fields of physics, biology and other natural sciences today. Aristotle's works cover almost all aspects of knowledge exploration. Aristotle associates philosophy and reasoning in a broad sense, and it is also called "science". But please note that his usage of the word science is different from the word "scientific method". In the case of Aristotle, "All Dianoa is practical, poetic, or theoretical" (Metaphysics 1025b 25). His hands-on science includes ethics and politics; his poems mean studies of art, including poetry; his theoretical science covers physics, mathematics and metaphysics.