aristotle

mysteriously combine to form an organism (6). Hence it is not clear what he had in mind when he described an active intellect whose activity is presupposed by the activity of the human mind and that is supposed to be able to exist independently of the body. Aristotle spent years studying the natural sciences and collecting specimens, and about 90 percent of his writings are on scientific subjects, mostly on biological ones (5). Aristotle believed he could account …

…disciplines to gain knowledge of matter through the investigation of form. This investigation leads to a telos concept which assists the analysis of the unusual. The legacy of Aristotle's philosophy is greater than described here, however the benefit of searching for knowledge from the past is clear in a letter Sir Issac Newton wrote to Robert Hooke in which he asserts, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."