Aristotle- A Comprehensive View On Nature And Society
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ristotle: A Comprehensive View on Nature and Society
In order to fully understand Aristotle's views on a natural system, it is necessary to first explain some general principles of his
philosophy. It is in his work the Categories that Aristotle presents the concept of substance, a concept which will serve as the foundation
for much of his philosophical system. Substance, for Aristotle, is not a universal, but rather, it is the particular; substance is not a
“such,” but a “this.” Thus, substance is neither in nor is it said of a subject (as are qualities). Rather it is that which makes the subject
numerically one; it is that which makes the subject the individual. Substance is "an individual man and [or] an individual horse."
Aristotle still classifies universals as substances, for they define what...