Talk:Aristotle

I just made a couple of substantial changes to the article. The first change mostly involved reorganisation, into the sections you can see now (introduction, biography, methodology, and criticism). I made a few corrections in the part which is now the introduction, and added links to idealism and materialism which make a less anachronistic contrast than rationalism and empiricism. I also moved a few lines to other places in the article.

I suspect those terms ought to be dropped altogether. They denote categories of post-seventeenth-century philosophy that at best offer a rough analogy for Aristotle; and that particular picture of the relationship between his and Plato's work is a caricature (enforced by a famous painting of Raphael's). Another anachronism is describing A as a "heathen" philosopher. A heathen is someone who (knowingly) disagrees with the teachings of the church; a pre-Christian, in this context, is a pagan.

The second change involved eliminating much of the material from the criticism section and toning down what remained. I thought that the previous version was too biased (even for criticism) and inaccurate.

It would be good if someone (me, perhaps) could add sections on the major divisions of Aristotle's philosophy.

G Shadbolt

Added a bibliography with links to existing texts. Made a few other minor changes.

GS

Unfortunately it looks like VT have had a reshuffle of their site: a couple of the links I tried didn't work. -- Nairobiny