A species is a kind. Plants and animals -- including the species of animal ”human being” -- are natural kinds. Aristotle was, in effect, the creator of the discipline of Taxonomy: the science of ...

Founded in 1955, Phronesis has become the most authoritative scholarly journal for the study of ancient Greek and Roman thought (ancient philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, epistemology and the ...

The paper examines the connection between Aristotle's theory of generated substance and his notion of potentiality in "Metaphysics" Θ.7. Aristotle insists that the matter of a substance is not what ...

Raphael's School of Athens depicts Aristotle and Plato at the center of a group of ancient Greek philosophers modeled on Raphael's contemporaries. Plato's finger points upward, while Aristotle's hand ...