Category: Aristotle
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Aristotle’s concept of teleology
You can accurately predict a person’s future if you know his goals and the intensity of his motivation. Aristotle, one of the three most influential […]
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Aristotle’s theory of the four causes
In this article, I present one of Aristotle’s key contributions to philosophy. Aristotle’s theory of the four causes seems at first sight very easy to […]
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Aristotle’s philosophy of metaphysics
The first thing to say about Aristotle’s metaphysics is that its very name has become misleading. The original Ancient Greek text is using the term […]
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Aristotle’s theory of causality
It is not easy to summarize the work of a lifetime in one sentence, especially when the person in question has written one and half […]
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