PHL 334 - Aristotle

3 credits
Prerequisites: Semester course in Philosophy, or permission of the instructor
Examination of the writings of Aristotle, a student of Plato, examining his systematic approach to philosophy. Aristotle’s contributions to the development of logic, his view of the soul, the divine, and literary criticism (poetics), may be addressed in addition to his important views regarding metaphysics, ethics and the study of the natural world. Questions regarding the coherence and consistency of Aristotle’s system may be addressed as well as the relation between his thought and Plato’s.