Will Durant
The Story of Avisotles Qhilosophy
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The Story of
Aristotles Qhilesophy
Will Durant
This little Blue Book No. 39, by Will Durant, deals with Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), a
Macedonian pupil of Plato, who became the teacher of Prince Alexander. While his
pupil went off to conquer the world, Aristotle returned to Athens and founded his
school, the Lyceum. There he amassed the first great collection of plants and
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science. Departing from abstract Platonic universals, Aristotle described such
natural processes as the developing embryo of the chick. He saw the universe as
matter in motion with God as its first impulsive force. Aristotle was skeptical of
Utopias. Social evils do not "arise out of the possession of private property," he
wrote, but "from quite another source--the wickedness of human nature." At the
theater he said we enjoy tragedies which elicit pity and terror, but in everyday life
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