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Essay on Aristotle
Aristotle, from 384-322 BC, was born in the northern Greece in Macedon, however, he spent a great part of his life in Athens. Many historians have divide Aristotle’s life in Athens into two distinct periods. The first part is of a student in Plato's Academy from 367 to 347 BC; and secondly as a director of a school that he had established himself, the Lyceum from 334 to 323 BC.
The superseding years were then spent in Assos and Lesbos. Most of his time that he had spent away from Athens was for the most part occupied with biological research and writing. Aristotle's most significant psychological writings basically is attributed to his second residence in Athens, and hence to the mature period of his life. Aristotle’s most important works are in the discipline of psychology. De Anima demonstrates the various ways of his persistent fascination in biological taxonomy and his most advanced physical and metaphysical theory.
Moreover, Aristotle has thoroughly examined psychological events fundamentally in De Anima and also in loosely connected compilation of short works known as the Parva Naturalia. From this the most famous pieces of work have been the De Sensu and De Memoria. Aristotle has also briefly touched upon various psychological topics. Most of his work on psychology seems to be often only incidental in his works of ethics, politics, and metaphysical thesis. Morepover, some of the work is also found in scientific writings, especially in the works of De Motu Animalium.
In both of his works of De Anima and the Parva Naturalia, Aristotle generally presumes something that may be considered odd in modern times. Aristotle assumes psychology to be the branch of science and thus he then investigates the soul and its properties. However, Aristotle generally thinks of the soul as a common principle of life....
