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Aristotle's Beliefs
Date Submitted: 03/10/2001 17:15:33
Aristotle believed that all people by nature desire to know. A sign of one who knows is that that person can teach, while the person of experience without knowledge cannot. He defined wisdom as knowledge of principles and causes. In his Physics and Metaphysics Aristotle discussed the material and formal causes Plato used and also the efficient and final
causes. The material cause explains what something is made of (out of which), the formal cause
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Plato that drama and poetry are imitations,he didn't wish to cencor or ban them.
He also believed that humans are the most imitative animals delight in the imitating and learns that way,thus imitative arts are not just for entertaining but educational as well, because he belived that learning is a pleasure for all humanities.
In the first year of his residence at Chalcis he complained of a stomach illness and died in 322 BCE.
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