Philosophy

Aristotle agreed with Plato's approach to science but also thought it was important to study living things. He first defined scientific knowledge, and why it should be required. He had invented science as the collective organized enterprise as it is today. Aristotle had the first science department to biology, but it was a bit weak in the physics side. Aristotle's method for living things was to define the subject matter, to consider the difficulties involved by reviewing the generally accepted views on the subject, and presenting his own solutions. There were four forms of study, which were matter, form, moving and the final cause.

Aristotle's hierarchy of being has produced a vision of the diversity of beings that

is more sensitive to their actual variation and more explanatorily powerful than they managed by his predecessors. The primary matter, Anaximander was right about the unlimited elements, which specified the modifications. The four elements is a kind of potential for all fundamental beings. The matter is composed into different combinations in order for the elements to work together. Organic objects have matter and form, but they also have fundamental unity. The principal of an organic object is the explanation of the structure. The hierarchical structure of being can be invoked in social processes serving legitimate and political structures. With hierarchy and organization, everything has a proper place to determine its natural state (http://people.bu.edu).

If Aristotle's thoughts, as expressed in his lectures and writings, are evaluated while keeping in mind the political and social circumstances in which he had to try to make a good life for him while upholding his standards of virtue, then one can conclude that Aristotle made a marvelous job of it. He understood the nature of man and knew that man was capable of being the worst of all animals, as has already been noted.