Aristotle Philosophy Paper

Many people don’t have the opportunity to build history and be a part of the foundation that makes a substance or subject what it is today. We can only fathom what being remembered would feel like after we leave this earth. We can only question if what we have discovered and established will be worth the topics in generations to come. One person who will never stop being talked about is Aristotle, and it’s not because he was the student of Plato but because his discovering and knowledge played a vital role in what the world is and knows about human interactions today. In his work entitled Metaphysics Aristotle offers his genuine comprehension of the world and of spirituality by following the sense of curiosity we feel toward reality.

Aristotle was the first philosopher to formalize the subject of Metaphysics also known as philosophy. The first philosophy (Metaphysics) is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is just as that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which, just as a thing that is, it has. (Aristotle, 340BC) One of the major aspects of metaphysics discovered by Aristotle is motion. To Aristotle “it’s the force requires to make an object move.” Aristotle’s view of motion was divided into two sections those sections were natural motion, and violent motion. In Aristotle’s opinion, natural motion comes from the “nature” of an object. He believed that all objects were some blend of the five elements earth, water, air, fire and ether. Aristotle proclaimed that motion is based off of the elements that are blended with in the object. In his definition natural motion was anything that wasn’t being forced to move for example the su...

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...ject’s outcome. He also recognized that human understanding and personal relations played a part in our knowledge of those objects. In the century after his death his works fell out of use but were rediscovered and used during the first century. Over the decades his works were used to lay the foundation of more than seven centuries of philosophy. Exclusively based on his acquired knowledge of metaphysics, Aristotle’s work influenced ideas from late ancient times all the way through the Renaissance. Aristotle may not have be accurate in his works judgments all of the time but his attempts in finding the truth and spreading his assumptions to the world is what caused the growth of understanding in science and more specifically the metaphysical realm today. This goes to show that even though you may be wrong you can be the reason one find right in the years to come.