Aristotle Aristotle represents for the average reader a stuffy difficult or abstruse form of philosophical thinking; yet when one gets to know Aristotle it often provokes whispers and or groans from people. For all his reputation, though, Aristotle is quite an easy read actually, he thought with incredible clarity and wrote with a vivid precision. One cannot talk about global, modern or Western culture without coming to terms with this difficult yet inspiring philosopher. Aristotle did not agree with very much of anything teacher, Plato, and, actually, didn’t get along with anyone; Aristotle was a know-it-all. One might say without exaggeration that the world we live in is an Aristotelian world; where one sees modern, Western science dominating any culture in a meaningful way (which is just about everywhere), Aristotle is there in some shape or form of his philosophy. Although he studied under Plato, Aristotle could not bring himself to think of the world in abstract terms the way Plato did; above all else, Aristotle believed that the world could be understood at a basic fundamental level through detailed observation and cataloging of events or phenomenon. That is to say, knowledge (which is what the word science means) is fundamentally empirical. Aristotle, as a result of his belief literally wrote about everything: poetics, rhetoric, ethics, politics, meteorology, embryology, physics, mathematics, metaphysics, anatomy, physiology, logic, dreams, and so much more. I cannot be certain that he wrote about all of these directly or if they represent somebody else's notes on his classes; what I can say is that the words, "I don't know," never seemed to have came out of his mouth. He studied everything, and was the first person to think out the problem of evidence. In his approach to a problem, he would examine a.) what people had previously said or written on the subject, b.) examine the general consensus on the subject, c.) and do an in depth systematic study of...