a family estate in Euboea . He died there the following year.
Perhaps because of the influence of his fathers medical profession, Aristotles philosophy laid its principal stress on biology, in contrast to Platos emphasis on mathematics. Aristotle regarded theworld as made up of individuals occurring in fixed natural kinds . Each individual has its built-in specific pattern of development and grows toward proper self-realization as a specimen of its type. Growth, purpose, and direction are thus built into nature. Although science studies general kinds, according to Aristotle, these kinds find their existence in particular individuals. Science and philosophy must therefore balance, not simply choose between, the claims of empiricism and formalism .
One of the most distinctive of Aristotles philosophic contributions was a new notion of causality.Each thing or event, he thought, has more than one reason that helps to explain what, why, and where it is. Earlier Greek thinkers had tended to assume that only one sort of cause can be really explanatory; Aristotle proposed four.
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