ABSTRACT
In the Posterior Analytics Aristotle suggests an alternative interpretation of knowledge to that given in the Platonic doctrine of innate ideas. Aristotle devoted a treatise to the study of man, considering him as part of the organic world and as an individual. The Physics, along with On the Soul and the Metaphysics, present Aristotle’s view of the phenomenal world as one founded in nature, a material structure ordered according to the principles of necessary cause and effect. Basic to the theory of the intellectual life is the notion of liberation, and Aristotle again manifested his Greek outlook in identifying the liberal with leisure and the illiberal with menial work. In Athens additional schools of higher learning were established, all expounding different philosophies, including Stoicism and Epicureanism, while the Academy, Lyceum and various schools of rhetoric continued with their own particular teachings.
