Aristotle Natural Teleology Thought

This article argues that Aristotle's philosophy is a complete system, which focuses on theory of teleology. Aristotle's philosophy of teleology is constituted by three parts: metaphysic teleology, natural teleology, human teleology. This article mainly relates Aristotle's teleology of metaphysics and the key inspection is about Aristotle's theory of teleology. Aristotle's theory of teleology, logically speaking, is based upon the theory of metaphysics teleology. Thus, to interpret Aristotle's natural teleology, we must start with Aristotle's metaphysics teleology. The first chapter of my essay will illustrate in detail that Aristotle's metaphysics is actually a kind of teleology.The first chapter pointed out the core of Aristotle's philosophy is metaphysics, which has two aspects in meaning. One is metaphysics as a part of scholarship. The other is metaphysics as a kind of thinking. As the latter is subject to the former, I only discuss the former, namely, metaphysics as a discipline. It can have two divisions: metaphysics as first philosophy, metaphysics as ontology and metaphysics as theology. Firstly, through concrete analysis of Sophia, cause and the first cause, we will come to the conclusion that first philosophy can be defined as universal and individual, either of which is actually teleology. Secondly, through the analysis of being, substance and potentiality and actuality, we can come to the point that universal ontology and theology (individual ontology) are also teleology. Meanwhile the article declares that universal ontology considered by most people as contradictory to individual ontology (theology) can be united as one through teleology. During the course of argumentation, the article clarified metaphysics teleology is the base of Aristotle's natural teleology.The second chapter discourses on Aristotle's teleology from the following three aspects. Firstly, through the analysis of the core categories of Aristotelian teleology— 'nature', 'natural substance', and 'natural ends', the article argues Aristotle's natural things themselves as substance by nature is teleo beings, while natural ends are natural substance. Secondly, during the course of the argumentation upon Aristotle's natural ends, the article also explains Aristotle's natural teleology is characterized by internal and in deliberate. Finally, the article says that Aristotle's natural teleology is a mode of thinking.In the third and fourth chapter, the article analysis's all Aristotle's natural substances and basically makes it clear that all from sub-lunar lifeless things of nature, living things such as plants, animals and human beings to sacred things of nature are in accordance with the internal purpose of their own. What's more, the article points out Aristotle's natural and internal teleology shall be viewed from the point of dialectic. We can't entirely deny their relation of teleo between various natural things, which Aristotle didn't emphasize in his natural teleology. In this way the article has an all-round display of Aristotle's teleology of natural teleology.In one word, the article have restructured Aristotle's metaphysical teleology and natural teleology, with the author's perception and interpretation of Aristotle's teleology, try to eliminate people's misunderstanding about Aristotle's teleology, especially Aristotle's natural teleology, making Aristotle's teleology, to a great extent, resist or contend nowadays prevailing quantity mechanical world outlook and view of life.