The idea of nature in Aristotle

Abstract

The vast Aristotelian thought, complex and diverse, is a reason so attractive for its vigour and systemic nature, if not also for the difficulties it presents to the understanding of what it actually held about the various objects of its research. Because of its vastness and complexity, personalities who have made an epoch when they became specialists in Aristotelian thought have had to deal with its understanding. Themes such as animal and plant life, the soul, the sky, ideas and physics, touched by his research, have reached us as an imperishable sample of the great human concern to know and explain the existence and the way of existence of things.