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Essay Archive - Aristotle: A Comprehensive View on Nature and Society
Aristotle: A Comprehensive View on Nature and Society
In order to fully understand Aristotle's views on a natural system, it
is necessary to first explain some general principles of his philosophy. It is
in his work the Categories that Aristotle presents the concept of substance, a
concept which will serve as the foundation for much of his philosophical system.
Substance, for Aristotle, is not a universal, but rather, it is the particular;
substance is not a “such,” but a “this.” Thus, substance is neither in nor is
it said of a subject (as are qualities). Rather it is that which makes the
subject nu....
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