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Single Idea 6559
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
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Full Idea
To the best of my knowledge (and somewhat to my surprise), Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal; however, he all but says it.
Gist of Idea
Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal
Source
report of Aristotle (works [c.330 BCE]) by Robert Fogelin - Walking the Tightrope of Reason Ch.1
Book Ref
Fogelin,Robert: 'Walking the Tightrope of Reason' [OUP 2004], p.17
A Reaction
When I read this I thought that this database would prove Fogelin wrong, but it actually supports him, as I can't find it in Aristotle either. Descartes refers to it in Med.Two. In Idea 5133 Aristotle does say that man is a 'social being'. But 22586!
Related Ideas
Idea 5133
Man is by nature a social being [Aristotle]
Idea 22586
Only humans have reason [Aristotle]
The
25 ideas
from 'works'
19693
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There is practical wisdom (for action), and theoretical wisdom (for deep understanding)
[Aristotle, by Whitcomb]
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1575
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For Aristotle logos is essentially the ability to talk rationally about questions of value
[Roochnik on Aristotle]
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1589
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Aristotle is the supreme optimist about the ability of logos to explain nature
[Roochnik on Aristotle]
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8200
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Aristotelian definitions aim to give the essential properties of the thing defined
[Aristotle, by Quine]
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4385
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Aristotelian definition involves first stating the genus, then the differentia of the thing
[Aristotle, by Urmson]
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13282
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Aristotle relativises the notion of wholeness to different measures
[Aristotle, by Koslicki]
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4730
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For Aristotle, the subject-predicate structure of Greek reflected a substance-accident structure of reality
[Aristotle, by O'Grady]
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3320
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Aristotle's standard analysis of species and genus involves specifying things in terms of something more general
[Aristotle, by Benardete,JA]
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13276
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The unmoved mover and the soul show Aristotelian form as the ultimate mereological atom
[Aristotle, by Koslicki]
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13277
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The 'form' is the recipe for building wholes of a particular kind
[Aristotle, by Koslicki]
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5991
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For Aristotle, knowledge is of causes, and is theoretical, practical or productive
[Aristotle, by Code]
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11239
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The notion of a priori truth is absent in Aristotle
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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23312
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Aristotle is a rationalist, but reason is slowly acquired through perception and experience
[Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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16111
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Aristotle wants to fit common intuitions, and therefore uses language as a guide
[Aristotle, by Gill,ML]
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11243
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Aristotelian explanations are facts, while modern explanations depend on human conceptions
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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12000
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Aristotle regularly says that essential properties explain other significant properties
[Aristotle, by Kung]
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23300
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Aristotle and the Stoics denied rationality to animals, while Platonists affirmed it
[Aristotle, by Sorabji]
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11240
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The notion of analytic truth is absent in Aristotle
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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6559
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Aristotle never actually says that man is a rational animal
[Aristotle, by Fogelin]
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3037
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Aristotle said the educated were superior to the uneducated as the living are to the dead
[Aristotle, by Diog. Laertius]
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11150
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it
[Aristotle]
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8660
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There are potential infinities (never running out), but actual infinity is incoherent
[Aristotle, by Friend]
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12058
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Aristotle's matter can become any other kind of matter
[Aristotle, by Wiggins]
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16971
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Plato says sciences are unified around Forms; Aristotle says they're unified around substance
[Aristotle, by Moravcsik]
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22729
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The concepts of gods arose from observing the soul, and the cosmos
[Aristotle, by Sext.Empiricus]
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