ABSTRACT
Aristotle believed that wisdom seems much like scientific knowledge, but it is only part of knowledge. Art and science begin in experience, but experience deals with things individually, not with general principles and the causes of things. Aristotle found in Plato a friend and philosophical mentor. He accepted most of Plato's philosophy at first, and his early writings indicate this. Aristotle's philosophy is called 'teleological', from the Greek word telos, for 'end' or 'purpose'. Aristotle thought that nature is purposive. Aristotle recognized a difference between the form that a thing may have at a given moment and its final. The entelechy is the final, complete form that gives a thing its identity. Aristotle's aesthetic theory in the Poetics is primarily addressed to poetry; some of his generalizations about dramatic poetry are too narrow to apply to all the fine art forms. Aristotle believed in different kinds of entelechies, related to others and graded according to their level of actualization.
