PSCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Techne, Practical Action, List Of Domesticated Animals
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Books 1, 3, 4, 5 are the most important. Aristotle was a student of plato"s similar areas of investigation; Aristotle trained in medicine; more practical and empirical different approach approach. Studied philosophy as a whole from metaphysics, physical sciences, biology, human sciences, ethics and politics. Politics the master science because it studied the state ; but understood as a branch of ethics or the good life. Gives the idea of concepts and definitions because the reading is. One of the first things he wants to define is what is man and full of them what is a state. Being can only be understood as an ordered whole ; everything in relation to each other; interconnected. Systematic study of categories of investigation; each part related to the structure of the rational cosmos nous as the. Man"s rational capacity enables him to know or grasp the. Essence of things through reason and speech logos .