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A 3 page analysis/summation of a video 'The Big Questions: The Greeks,' which is part of the PBS series, 'For the Love of Wisdom.' Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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professor of philosophy at Howard Community College, "The Roots of Wisdom." This series provides an introduction to the history and basis for philosophy that is informative, comprehensive, and ?surprisingly?entertaining. There
is the popular concept that philosophy is difficult?which is frequently true?and dull. This series ameliorates the first observation and disproves the latter. The segment in the series entitled "The
Big Questions: The Greeks" offers the beginning student of philosophy an introduction to the study of ancient Greek philosophical texts, particularly the work of Aristotle and Plato, although the video
also let the audience eavesdrop on a conversation between Socrates and a slave boy. The video demonstrates how Aristotles view of the world focused on making direct observations of
nature. Aristotle considered philosophy to be concerned with a self-evident set of first principles on which one could base all knowledge. He used logic as his tool for inquiry
and believed that syllogism was the sequence that all logical thought had to follow. Aristotle also introduced the concept of categorizing things, with substance as the principal category. Aristotles
conclusions eventually led him away from the worldview of his teacher and mentor, Plato held that concrete reality contains things that have a form, yet differentiated between having a form
and embodying that form. Aristotle, on the other hand, proposed that a form, with the exception of the "Prime Mover" (God), had no separate existence, but rather was immanent in
matter. This differentiation between the views of Aristotle and Plato is referred to as Aristotles "one-world view" and Platos "two-world view." Aristotle defined man as a "rational animal"
(Schall 5). In other words, it was by reason that Aristotle differentiated between humanity and other beings t hat lacked reasons, and also from the gods, which he concluded
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