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The document summarizes Aristotle's Metaphysics, focusing on Book 6 E. It discusses how metaphysics differs from other sciences by studying....
15 Form and matter Aristotle says everything that exists in our world is a composite of form and matter Form is nature or whatness of a thing Example of bronze.
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Title: Aristotle
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Aristotles Aesthetics (382-322 BC)
- Welcome to Aristotle!
- Western thoughts
- first structural
- textual critic of
- the Fine Arts!
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Aristotles Aesthetics (382-322 BC)All men by
nature to desire to know.the human race lives
also by art and reasonings Metaphysics 11.
- Aristotle produced the first
- extended study of an art form.
- The Poetics is the primary
- resource for Aristotles view
- of art."The essence (or 'form,' as he [Aristotle] called it, borrowing Plato's term) is the thing's 'whatness,' and its materiality is its 'thisness.
- Poetics is a reply to Platos
- condemnation of Poetry.
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Introduction
- In terms of literary analysis, in the
- Poetics, Aristotle moves back
- Forth between criticism and theory.
- He wrote Poetics in our after 334.
- We only have Book I Book II on
- comedy is lost.
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Introduction
- The Poetics can be somewhat perplexing.
Therefore, it is helpful to keeping in mind the
following guiding questions - What is poetry?
- What kind of poetry is tragedy?
- What are tragedys essential elements?
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