Draft:Aristotle for Everybody

An Introduction to Aristotelianism as a companion reference to the textbook by   Please acquire that book to read and critically evaluate alongside this companion course, composed the primary sources. These are listed as citations given in the Adler's appendix "for those who have read or wish to read to Aristotle". This companion course takes advantage of the public domain wikisource version, to link each book and chapter of Aristotle's tractates, making research easy and elegant. Since Adler's compilation and analysis is a derivative work, and we hold this to be fair use of any copyright held on the derivative, in accordance with the public education manifestos published by professor Adler himself, and in honor of his lifework. This course is being migrated from the wikipedia article Aristotle for Everybody, as it is more appropriate to this project than that.

1. Aristotle's Fourfold Classification of Sensible, Material Substances: Inorganic Bodies, Plants, Animals, Men. [Philosophical Games]
The difference between essence and accident.
 * Metaphysics I.1
 * On the Soul I.1 I.5; II.1-3,5,9; III.3,12
 * History of Animals VIII.1 X.1
 * Generation of Animals I.1-9 IV.4-6
 * Parts of Animals I.4-5
 * Categories V
 * Metaphysics V.4,11; IX.8

3. Productive, Practical, and Theoretic Reason or Mind [Man's Three Dimensions]
Aristotle's classification of three activities of a human being: making, doing, and knowing, corresponding to the three types of reason: productive, practical, and theoretical. Adler titles these sections "Man the Maker," "Man the Doer," and "Man the Knower," respectively.

Ethics VI.2-4

On the Soul, III.7

Part II: Aristotle's philosophy of Nature and of Art. [Man the Maker]
In response to the errors and partial truths of: Aristotle developed his theory of change. It involves distinction between rest and movement. In local motion, there is a distinction between natural movement and violent movement. There is also change in quality, such as when a green tomato ripens and becomes red. This type of change can be either natural or artificial, for example a green chair can be painted red. There can be a change in quantity. There can also be generation and corruption - coming to be and passing away. Aristotle takes note of what we now call conservation of matter.
 * Parmenides and his disciple Zeno
 * Heraclitus and his disciple Cratylus

6. Aristotle's doctrine of the four causes: efficient, material, formal, and final.
Physics, II.3-9

Metaphysics I.3-10, V.3, VI.2-3, VII.17, VIII.2-4, IX.8, XII.4-5

=== 7. Further developments in the theory of Potentiality and Actuality, and Matter and Form, especially with respect to substantial change, or Generation and Corruption. [To Be or Not to Be] ===

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Classic and Scholastic Expositors

 * Isagoge (Introduction) to Aristotle's Categories by Porphyry not recommended but of significant influence in late antiquity through middle ages.
 * Guide to the Perplexed, by Maimonides recommended: its latin translation initiated the Scholastic movement that created the medieval universities.