In book: Sourcebook of experiential education: Key thinkers and their contributions (pp.18-25) Chapter: Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates: Ancient Greek perspectives on experiential learning. 8 Aristotles Division of the Three Sciences 9 Metaphysics. Aristotle changed the face of philosophy having views that opposed those who came before him. Aristotle’s life began in 384BC in Stageira, Chalcidice. According to Aristotle, philosophy and logic play a key role in education as the forms of implementation of a unified approach in any field of knowledge. I. Aristotle’s work was wide-ranging – yet our knowledge of him is necessarily fragmented. The Irish Journal of Education, 1990, xxiv, 2, pp 62-88 ARISTOTLE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTELLECTUAL EDUCATION Peter M Collins Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin The purposes of the paper are to explain three philosophical principles m Aristotle s metaphysics and to ascertain some implications of these topics for education We only have scraps of his work, but his influence on educational thinking has been of fundamental importance. It is philosophy that turns knowledge “scientific,” that is, in the understanding of Aristotle, the knowledge which is built from the beginnings, from the first principles. Aristotle taught philosophy, first at Atarneus in Asia Minor, then in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. he returned to Athens and founded a school called the Lyceum. Aristotle thought that nature could best he understood by observation and reason and that all knowledge should be subject to observation and reason, science education has shown a renewed interest in Education is a matter of conversion, a complete turning around from the world of appearance to the world of reality “The conversion of the soul [is] not to put the power of sight in the soul’s eye, which already has it, but to insure that, instead of looking in the wrong direction, it is turned the way it ought to be” Virtue is the life principle of the state. Theory of Value What knowledge and skills are worthwhile learning? Aristotle’s ethics are based on such concepts as happiness, the mean, leisure and wisdom, which we also encounter in his theory of education. Aristotle, The Louvre Wikipedia | ccby sa2 licence Aristotle and education. Then he became tutor of Alexander the Great at the court of Macedonia. In 335 or 334 B.C.E . He wrote on many subjects including science, logic, philosophy, politics and ethics. The purpose of the state is to educate the people -- to make them virtuous. Aristotle was a classical Greek philosopher taught by Plato. In Organon and similar works, Aristotle develops a comprehensive system of logic and reasoning. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. He continued the same project of philosophy that Plato was doing, but believed that he was correcting many of Plato’s errors. Clearly in Aristotle’s view all forms of education should aim at the mean.16 The eighth and final book of the Politics (following the … Aristotle developed what he called the science of first philosophy ; Discussed a type of knowledge that he thought In Physics, Aristotle investigates the nature of causation. Aristotle (384 – 322 BC).