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Harvard Course:
Aristotlelian Analysis:
"Aristotle is actually quite an easy read..."
www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/ARIST.HTM
Getting Started:
Below, you will find some deep background information about Aristotle.
Aristotle:
"Aristotle was born in 384 BCE. at Stagirus, a Greek colony and seaport on the coast of Thrace. His father Nichomachus was court physician to King Amyntas of Macedonia, and from this began Aristotle's long association with the Macedonian Court, which considerably influenced his life. While he was still a boy his father died.
At age 17 his guardian, Proxenus, sent him to Athens, the intellectual center of the world, to complete his education.
He joined the Academy and studied under Plato, attending his lectures for a period of twenty years."
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm#H1 .
.Aitia:
"Aristotelian Analysis, the foundation of Western Thought, is based on the Greek word "Aitia" often translated as "cause."
There is a relationship to law.
"Aitia means "credit" for the good or bad, or the legal "responsibility".
(It doesn't mean cause per se.) Aristotle
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"In the original Greek, the word that is commonly translated as "cause" today is aition (singular of the adjective aitios - used as a noun), aitia (plural noun). Aition means "that on which the legal responsibility for a given state of affairs can be laid".
Aitia means "credit" for the good or bad, or the legal "responsibility".
So what Aristotle delineates with the four fashions are the factors that are "responsible for" or "credited with" a thing having the form, the nature, it has.
These phrases must be understood not as referring to antecedents, but rather to active agents. So, to be "responsible for" or be "credited with" refers to agents actively involved in a process, not to ones that had some prior involvement."
http://www.panmere.com/rosen/faq_aristotelian_analysis.htm
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General Introduction
Aristotle (384-322 BCE.):
"Aristotle's writings on the general subject of logic were grouped by the later Peripatetics under the name Organon, or instrument.
From their perspective, logic and reasoning was the chief preparatory instrument of scientific investigation. Aristotle himself, however, uses the term "logic" as equivalent to verbal reasoning."
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm#H3
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Learning Objectives Bloom's Taxonomy
"Competence Skills Demonstrated
Knowledge observation and recall of information
knowledge of dates, events, places
knowledge of major ideas
mastery of subject matter
Question Cues:
list, define, tell, describe, identify, show, label, collect, examine, tabulate, quote, name, who, when, where, etc.
Comprehension understanding information
grasp meaning
translate knowledge into new context
interpret facts, compare, contrast
order, group, infer causes
predict consequences
Question Cues:
summarize, describe, interpret, contrast, predict, associate, distinguish, estimate, differentiate, discuss, extend
Application use information
use methods, concepts, theories in new situations
solve problems using required skills or knowledge
Questions for Course Analysis:
Who will be performing the desired behaviour?
What should the student be able to do within the course?
When? Under what conditions do you want the student to be able to do it?
How well must it be done?
modified from:
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/EDTEC540/objectives/Components.html
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