#Aristotle #pinciple #rationality There is an objective reality. Man’s consciousness is tasked with perceiving it through rationality. > Aristotle's incomparable achievement lay in the fact that he defined the basic principles of a rational view of existence and of man’s consciousness: that there is only one reality, the one which man perceives -- that it exists as an objective absolute (which means: independently of the consciousness, the wishes or the feelings of any perceiver) -- that the task of man’s consciousness is to perceive, not to create, reality -- that abstractions are man’s method of integrating his sensory material—that man’s mind is his only tool of knowledge -- that A is A.