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Logic

I believe we could improve the section about logic. The "History" part is ok, and I don't really know anything about the topic to make comments on it. I believe, though, that the section called "Analytics and Organon" should be renamed "The Logical Treatises". Also, I think we should supress the word "aristotelian" in the sentence What we call today Aristotelian logic, Aristotle himself would have labelled analytics, for it just confuses: wouldn't Aristotle label as analytics any other philosophy of this kind? After listing the books of the Organon, we could mention that this corpus is called Organon.

Then, we could include a paragraph about syllogisms and another about dialetics, but not go to much into details, since this is the subject of the article about the Organon. Bhvilar

Edit request from , 8 October 2011

Underneath the section LIFE,Aristotles place of birth is incorrect spelling-it is supposed to be Stagira,Someone please change it.

71.191.81.7 (talk) 00:07, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

As I read the article on both Stagira and Stageira it appears as if Stagira is the modern day city northeast of Stageira and Aristotle was born in Stageira. --Jnorton7558 (talk) 02:08, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Missing Geographical theories?

I just read about the Torrid Zone, which was proposed by Aristotle, but his wiki page has no mention of this.

70.77.59.211 (talk) 03:59, 2 November 2011 (UTC)VD

Aristotle`s origins?

When you write aricles,you should make sure you writte them properly.Aristotle is no Greek,he`s Macedoinan,he was the teacher of Alexander the Great Macedonian.There are a lot of evidence and you must give true information about everything. Check what i just said. Thank You! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.162.217.65 (talk) 10:35, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Actually your Macedonians appeared in history some 2400 years after Aristotle, so there must be something wrong in your claim... A Macedonian (talk) 10:48, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

I think a better response would be that Stageira was certainly Greek rather than an ancient Macedonian city. (Though the Macedonians spoke Greek, they were not accepted as Greek by the Greek cities until they had conquered most of Greece). Stageira was founded by Ionians, it was part of Athens' sphere of influence, and I believe they sent athletes to the Olympic games (which the Macedonians could not until they conquered Greece). When the Macedonians came, they destroyed the city and enslaved the population—they certainly treated it like a Greek rather than Macedonian city. RJC ^Talk_Contribs 14:13, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

The point is that the ancient Macedonians, Greek or not (actually -for the majority of modern scholars- Greek one way or another), have nothing to do with modern ethnic Macedonians, which is what ip really claims here. See contemporary ideas of Macedonian Nationalism for more. A Macedonian (talk) 14:57, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

No I think this argument is not a relevant point at all concerning this article. Aristotle was from Stageira and lived his life in many parts of Greece. The ethnicity of the people in the core of the Kingdom of Macedonia is not a subject for this talk page as far as I can see.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 17:30, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Alexander I took part in the Olympic Games before the forced union of the Greek states. As a PhD you should know that. You cannot be descendant of Alexander the Great and of Czar Samuel at the same time nor speak a bulgarian dialect (with some serbian additions) and call yourself direct descendant of Philip of Macedon... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.58.134.209 (talk) 13:25, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

natural motion and violent motion

is there any contrast to natural and violent motion theory of Aristotle?/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.3.85.25 (talk) 14:20, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Aristotle does have a concept of natural motion I would say, but I do not think that your words "violent ... motion" correspond to anything in Aristotle or for that matter anything that rings a bell for me. For motion perhaps see our energeia article.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 16:23, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Very funny ironic statement

The statement "In places like Sparta where the lot of women is bad, there can only be half-happiness in society" is quite humorous. Aristotle believed the lot of women in Sparta was bad only because they had a greater amount of rights than anywhere else. A sentiment, I doubt many modern feminists would agree with. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.202.160.188 (talk) 04:02, 23 December 2011 (UTC)