Lose Times
...m my artwork, to my studies; I tend to want to know everything about a subject based solely upon facts. Because of the way I think, I am certainly lean toward the Aristotelian point of view. Aristotle believed that everything in nature can be explained by definitions, and the definitions are merely expressions of forms. Aristotle based a lot of his knowledge on induction, whereby he would learn a new thing by assessing an old. This is the same way that I work. I gain a conclusion about something based upon past facts. Because my mind is one designed to be filled with Math and Science rather than English, I work on this basis, and this basis was the basis for Aristotle’s thoughts. I, just as Aristotle based most of our convictions on fact, and logic. Aristotle’s idea of form and matter was one differs completely from his teacher. Plato believed that a matter may have several forms, while Aristotle believed that form and matter are linked together, and cannot be separated. Personally, I find the idea of Aristotle very simple, and I am able to understand his idea much clearer than that of Plato. Aristotle’s thinking was much more concrete, and that is the essence of his philosophy. He believes in the concrete, and that is clearly why I am forced to associate with his philosophy. Even if I did not want to believe in these ideas, I am a very concrete person, and I need to know the reasons for everything. The Ethical views of Aristotle are also along the same lines of my thinking. His idea was one of moderation, and never of extremes. He believed in the idea that one must pursue both the intellectual life, and one of politics, where politics falls along the lines of morality. In a much more general sense though, it is hard for m to associate with either of the two philosophers because I am not a philosophical background, and my knowledge pertaining to this area is underdeveloped. Through eliminatio...