ABSTRACT
Aristotle was an untiring student of Nature in the broadest possible sense. By personal observation and introducing the empirical method in philosophy, he examined hundreds of plants, animals, and various phenomena of Nature, and so it was impossible not to connect the existence of Man with the latter. The philosopher points to the immense and multiform possibilities of Nature and their superiority compared to the abilities of Man. Nature provides the human being with basic qualities on which the personality can be built. An individual is receptive of the moral virtues by originally being equipped with functions which we would call basically biological, like the senses, nutrition, and reproduction. Through the sensory system various stimuli from outside give us information which is processed by intellectual functions and, according to how well a person is endowed by Nature and the experience he obtains by habit or the emotional situations he has lived, a better or less correct judgement develops.
