Aristotle (together with Socrates and Plato) is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. Aristotle believed that human beings are “featherless bipeds”. This has to do with his theory of politics because Aristotle’s view on politics is essentially fascist.
I personally don’t agree with Aristotle on the fact that he thinks most human beings are just featherless birds who can be forced into slavery so that the philosophers can sit around doing nothing but arguing all day. A better theory of society would be that people are all equal and unique, just like a snowflake. It is just like, I always say to people: All men are created equal.
Aristotle considered ethics to be a practical science, i.e., one mastered by doing rather than merely reasoning. Further, Aristotle believed that ethical knowledge is not......
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