EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY ACCORDING TO ARISTOTELES

A. Curriculum Vitae

Purnawan (2009) specifies Aristotle's short biogravy as follows.

Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotle)
was a Greek philosopher, a disciple of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great. He writes
in many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric,
politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.

• Aristotle Organon is a contribution of logic and reasoning - composed of six books.

• The senses are the source of knowledge.
• Universal human form, or category, of various perceptions about like things.
• Universal is the concepts, not something (rejects Plato's Idealism).
• Deductive reasoning based on experience as a method of science and philosophy.
• In science, Aristotle produces books in the natural sciences, biology, (Animal History is his
greatest scientific achievement) and psychology (On the Soul).
• Aristotelian metaphysics produces his view of God as the first cause, pure thought, internal
nature.
• Ethics is concerned with the happiness of the individual; Politics is concerned with
collective happiness.

Smith (1986: 35) Aristotle was a distinguished intellectual and intellectual, perhaps of all
time. Mankind has been indebted to it for much of its progress in philosophy and the
sciences, especially logic, metaphysics, politics, ethics, biology, and psychology. Aristotle
was born in 384 S.M. in Stagira, a small town on the secluded Chalci peninsula that looms
north of the Egea Sea. His father, Nichomachos, who served as a physician for Amyntas II,
king of Macedonia, arranged for Aristotle to receive a complete education early in childhood
and perhaps later to teach him in the observation of the symptoms of illness and surgical
techniques. Both Aristotle's father and mother, Phaestis, had a prominent ancestor.

At the age of seventeen Aristotle went to Athens where for the next ten years (367-345 S.M.)
he studied at the Plato Academy. He was soon appointed to read the great philosophers'
essays to the other students as an assistant, and eventually begin to write his own works using
notes about Plato's lectures and criticizing some of the lectures. Shortly after the death of
Plato (347 S.M.) Aristotle traveled to the palace of Hermias, a former slave and student of the
Academy who ruled the Greek ruler at Artaneus and assos, Asia Minor, and he had married a
member of the Hermias family. (In 341 Hermias had been executed by the Persians for
conspiring with Philip II to invite him to the palace in Pella to teach his thirteen-year-old son
Alexander, then famous in history as Alexander the Great.Phil had destroyed the birthplace of
Aristotle Stagira in 348 BC, but has refined it at the request of Aristotle who wrote a new
constitution for the city In 336 BC Philip was murdered, and Alexander succeeded him.
Fauzi (2009) as he studied in academia, he published several works. In addition, he also
studied astronomy to eudotos and kaippos which at that time was famous as astronomers.
Aristotle also taught younger members of academia about logic and rhetoric. In Athens he
founded a school called Lyceum. From the school it produces many research results that can
not only explain the principles of science but also politics, rhetoric and so forth. But over
time Aristotle's position in Athens is not safe, because he is a stranger. Moreover, he is
rumored to be a subversive influence spreader and accused of atheism. Then finally he left
Athens and moved to Cahalcis and died there in 322 BC, because of stomach ailments he
suffered for a long time. He left behind a daughter and a son, Nichomacus.

Aristotle was one of those who had defeated the thinking of the Greeks scientifically with
logical and brilliant statements, the statements he obtained through discussions with his
disciples. His success in formulating systematic and correct thinking techniques as well as his
laws, has made him the first teacher of logic in the world up to this time.

B. Content of Philosophical Views

According to the website accessed through http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristoteles Aristotle's

philosophy developed in the first three stages when he was still studying at Plato's Academy
when his ideas were still close to his teacher, then when he was displaced, and lastly at the
time he leads the Lyceum covering six of his papers on logic, regarded as his most important
works, in addition to his contributions in the fields of Metaphysics, Physics, Ethics, Politics,
Medical Sciences, Natural Sciences and artwork.

In the field of natural sciences, he was the first person to systematically collect and classify
biological species. His work illustrates his tendency for critical analysis, and the search for
natural laws and the balance of nature.

Contrary to Plato's theory of the ideal forms of matter, Aristotle explains that matter is not
possible without form because it exists. Another thought is about the motion in which all
things are said to move toward a goal, an opinion which is said to be teleological. Since the
object can not move by itself there must be a propulsion where the driver must have another
drive until it arrives at the first immobile motion which is then called theos, which in Greek
sense is now considered to mean God. Aristotelian logic is a deductive reasoning system,
which is still considered to be the basis of every lesson on formal logic. Nevertheless, in his
scientific research he realized the importance of observation, experimentation and inductive
thinking. Another thing in the frame of mind that Aristotle's important contribution is the
syllogism that can be used in drawing precise new conclusions from two existing truths.
Suppose there are two statements (premise).