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from Platonism. He wrote On Philosophy in which he shows
how his idea of the meaning of this theoretical science
differs from that of Plato. Here we have a basic difference
concerning fundamentals. He criticizes the theory of Ideas
and introduces the idea of an unmoved mover, without the
multiplicity of unmoved movers found in the later Meta-
physics. There is an argument for the existence of God taken
from the grades of perfection found in things (the 4th
way in St. Thomas Aquinas' classification). He also criticizes
the doctrine of "creation" as found in the Timaeus and
asserts the eternity of the world. The original draft of parts
of the Metaphysics goes back to this period. The Eudemean
Ethics are considered by some to belong to this period,
perhaps parts of the Politics, (those dealing with the Ideal
State), parts of the De Generatione et Corruptione, also.C. At the Lyceum (335-323). This is the period of his
concentration on exact scientific observation as the neces-
sary foundation for the metaphysical structure he has
erected. This viewpoint was a direct outcome of the early
Ionian scientific investigations but in its Aristotelian form
quite new and revolutionary in Greek philosophy. The works
that we have from this period appear to be merely lecture-
notes, finely and carefully prepared, but without any attempt
at literary excellence. The ideas are the important thing;
the style, or lack of it, is relatively unimportant. The
arrangement of the works that we have is not necessarily
the order of delivery or composition; the actual sequence
in any one work is not necessary either. Andronicus of
Rhodes, head of the Peripatetic School at Athens during
Cicero's student days, is supposed to have edited and classi-
fied the Aristotelian works that are attributed to this period.
In his classification the works include the following:
1. The Organon (the instrument of the search for truth):
a. The Categories, which treat of simple terms and
their differentiation into ten basic predicaments or ultimate
classificatory categories.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Aristotle Dictionary. Contributors: Thomas P. Kiernan - editor. Publisher: Philosophical Library. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1962. Page Number: 8.
    
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