Aristotle

Introduction

Aristotle (384 b.c. - 322 b.c.): Another Greek philosopher, student of Plato, born at Stagira, Macedonia. It gave rise to the Republic and the laws. It is said that Plato was the "Idealist" and Aristotle was the "realist". He was the creator of logic. Your ideas organized administrative activities, basically the commercial. And yet in our times, there are strong influences of Aristotelian ethics in different currents of thought and different disciplines.

Aristotle is one of the most important philosophers of all time and has been one of the pillars of Western thought. His works written more than two thousand three hundred years, still exert a significant influence on many contemporary thinkers and continue being subject of studies by multiple specialists. The philosophy of Aristotle constitutes, together with his teacher Plato, the most important legacy of the thought of the ancient Greece.

Aristotle and his philosophy

Its great ideological revolution makes it precisely in the field of the theory of knowledge. Against all philosophers who boasted the validity of knowledge, he says there is truth without experimentation. Aristotle gives reality to ideas understanding them as the essence of the real things - there is nothing in mind that was not previously in the sense.

Himself invented the empiricism that believes that all philosophies and Sciences have start from the experiences, i.e. all the sensations offered by the world of perception and sensitive knowledge. He rediscovered the experience on the basis of true knowledge. The perception that had been discarded as inaccurate and misleading knowledge i.e. the DOXA, for it is starting necessary and obligatory, not only of all philosophy, but of all sciences. Himself invented and built for the first time in the Western almost all the natural sciences major, such as physics, chemistry, geography and also the most significant social sciences as ethics, politics and the study of society.

It created its logic to ensure a solid knowledge access to reality. It changed the course of the philosophy to think that ideas and thoughts were not as Plato believed him. He inserted the ideas in the real world, both the material things that are an offer to the sensitive knowledge, as ideas and concepts. Since then the ideas do not float in ideal vacuum exist in the same things of the reality. At the same time was the creator of the empiricism epistemological, he was also Manager of the realism metaphysic. There is a foreign reality that can be accessible to empirical knowledge.

It was Aristotle who introduced the name of ethics to designate the concerning to the principles of good and the bad, and of practice philosophy, for the discipline that dictate the rules to should submit the human behavior. According to Aristotle, virtue is the object of the ethics, morality is the practice philosophy.

The purpose of ethics is moral; this statement allows make a few remarks on the relations and differences between ethics and morals. Relations between them are obvious: is the relationship that holds either one science with its object of study. The ethics morality needs to draw their conclusions, to explain, to make their hypotheses and theories; but this does not mean that the task of ethics consists of invent or create morals. The ethics can not dispense with the history of the specific moral, but this does not mean that can be confused with them. The morals and ethics are different in the same way that are different, for example, the biology and phenomena vital. Some are objects of research; the biology is a science whose task is to study precisely those phenomena. The ethics should be understood in the same way: this is a science while morality is the object of this science. This means that morality is not science, but this does not prevent that it can become the object of scientific research. It is very important to repair these differences since it often tends to assert that morality is science, or use the word "ethical" as a synonym for moral. Thus, for example, professional ethical expression is misleading because it refers to a moral code to be observed by a professional, and not a science as it is the ethics.

According to Aristotle each investigation, as well as every action and every election, be made with a purpose that seems good and desirable. The purposes of human activities are manifold, and some of them are desired only in view of higher purposes as for example we wish good health. Each man is happy well fulfilling its mission, over the man's own mission is the life of reason. Thus, the man will be only happy if lives according to reason and this life is virtue.

The philosophy and the accounting ethic

The accounting was formerly an empirical art, but it has evolved

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