Aristotle And Unanswered Questions

Unanswered Questions & Metaphysics One of the hardest things for me, and one of the most frustrating things about this course, are the questions that are asked, but have no true answer. There are many questions in the world that have many or no answers, which you can sit and discuss for hours, days, weeks, and still never reach a definite answer. It may be frustrating, but that’s what keeps life interesting, especially for someone like me, who is extremely curious by nature. In this essay, I will delve deeper into Aristotle’s metaphysics and how people’s causality impacts these unanswered questions. Three months ago, if you asked me who Aristotle was, I would stutter and ask you if he was that guy who wrote all the fairy-tale-fable-type-story-things. I’m sure I’ve learned about him in another part of my prior education, but he never stuck with me. When we began discussing Socrates and his other friends from Antiquity, I groaned to myself; I didn’t sign up for a philosophy class, but as we began talking about all of these great thinkers, I found myself upset that our class was only fifty minutes long and I couldn't hear more about them. It may be because he was one of the ones we discussed the longest, but I was completely inspired by Aristotle and his ways of thinking. …show more content…
I feel like he was the one who created my career path, or reformed it, at the very least. For my future, I hope to become an educator, and if it weren’t for Aristotle using a curriculum in his teaching and education system, I don’t know what I would be doing with my life. In modern-day education, we might teach young math students arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus; in this same way, Aristotle taught his students logic, physics, psychology, natural history, and philosophy (this is where he put his emphasis). This hierarchy of learning he called