PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Reductio Ad Absurdum, Peripatetic School, Nicomachean Ethics
10 Feb 2016
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Aristotle was a student of plato, and teacher of alexander the. When the latter died, aristotle, being from macedonia, left. Athens before they could sin twice against philosophy. aristotle founded a school called the lyceum, and it was also referred to as the peripatetic school (which refers to them walking around). It"s difficult to underestimate the influence of aristotle. He wrote on rhetoric, logic, natural science, physics, theatre, poetry, politics, ethics, and many other things. Europeans via arabic philosophy in the middle ages, he was referred to as simply the philosopher. Chapter 1:highest good: the purpose of the nicomachean ethics (ne) is to discover the supreme good. Section1. 1:highest good: aristotle offers another proof for the existence of the supreme good. He uses an infinite regress argument to show how the position that there is not a supreme good is absurd.
