Aristotle had a lifelong interest in the study of nature. He investigated a variety of different topics, ranging from general issues like motion, causation, place and time, to systematic explorations and explanations of natural phenomena across different kinds of natural entities. These different inquiries are integrated into the framework of a single overarching enterprise describing the domain of natural entities... (continues)
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
Group #5 was having an interesting discussion about Aristotle and "deameons" (and "The Golden Compass") when I dropped in on them this morning. This article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy might be helpful. (Nothing in it explicitly about daemons, though.)
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Dr Oliver,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your input. It was very insightful and helpful.