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  1. Aristotle

    Aristotle was born on the Chalcidic peninsula of Macedonia, in northern Greece. His father, Nicomachus, was the physician of Amyntas III (reigned c. 393-c. 370 bce ), king of Macedonia and grandfather of Alexander the Great (reigned 336-323 bce ). After his father's death in 367, Aristotle migrated to Athens, where he joined the Academy ...

  2. Aristotle

    Aristotle [A] (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; [B] 384-322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts.As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition ...

  3. Aristotle: Biography, Greek Philosopher, Western Philosophy

    Aristotle (c. 384 B.C. to 322 B.C.) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist who is still considered one of the greatest thinkers in politics, psychology and ethics. When Aristotle turned 17 ...

  4. Aristotle

    Aristotle. First published Thu Sep 25, 2008; substantive revision Tue Aug 25, 2020. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) numbers among the greatest philosophers of all time. Judged solely in terms of his philosophical influence, only Plato is his peer: Aristotle's works shaped centuries of philosophy from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance, and ...

  5. Aristotle ‑ Philosophy & Life

    Aristotle (384‑322 B.C.) was a Greek philosopher who made significant and lasting contributions to nearly every aspect of human knowledge, from logic to biology to ethics and aesthetics.

  6. Aristotle

    Plato (l. c. 424/423-348/347 BCE) was a student of Socrates (l. c. 469/470-399 BCE) and Aristotle studied under Plato. The student and teacher disagreed on a fundamental aspect of Plato's philosophy - the insistence on a higher realm of Forms which made objective reality possible on the earthly plane - although, contrary to the claims of some scholars this did not cause any rift between them.

  7. Aristotle

    Aristotle (384 B.C.E.—322 B.C.E.) Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, who made important contributions to logic, criticism, rhetoric, physics, biology, psychology, mathematics, metaphysics, ethics, and politics.He was a student of Plato for twenty years but is famous for rejecting Plato's theory of forms. He was more empirically minded than both Plato and Plato's ...

  8. Aristotle

    Aristotle[ 1] (Stagira, Macedonia, [ 2] 384 BC - Chalicis, Euboea, Greece, 7 March 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher. He was one of the most important philosophers in the history of Western civilization. [ 3] Aristotle wrote many books, and some of those books survive. Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great when Alexander was a child.

  9. Aristotle: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy

    Aristotle, Francesco Hayez, 1811, via Wikimedia Commons. Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) was a renowned ancient Greek philosopher who greatly influenced the world of philosophy, science, and logic. He is considered one of the most influential figures in the history of Western thought. His works have been pivotal in developing metaphysics, ethics ...

  10. Aristotle

    Aristotle was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern ...

  11. Aristotle Biography

    Aristotle Biography. Aristotle (384BC - 322BC) was a Greek philosopher, natural scientist and polymath, who made extensive studies into the world around us. He was widely regarded as the greatest of the ancient thinkers and his extensive studies and writings had a lasting impact on science, philosophy and an approach based on reason and logical thinking.

  12. Aristotle Facts

    After the death of his wife Pythias, Aristotle lived with a woman named Herpyllis, with whom he had a son, Nichomachus, named after Aristotleu0019s father. Although Herpyllis was of inferior social status (she could have been a slave or a freed servant), Aristotle was very fond of her and made generous provisions for her in his will.

  13. Aristotle

    Lived 384 - 322 BC. Aristotle's influence on western culture and science has been enormous. His writings, many of which survived great periods of turmoil in the millennia separating us from him, show him to be a man of tremendous intellect who thought deeply about the world. The volume, extent and depth of his work is humbling.

  14. Aristotle Biography

    Peripatetic School Aristotle returned to Athens around 335 B.C.E. Under the protection of Antipater (c. 397-c. 319 B.C.E. ), Alexander's representative in Athens, Aristotle established a philosophical school of his own, the Lyceum, located near a shrine of Apollo Lyceus.Also known as the Peripatetic School, the school took its name from its colonnaded walk (a walk with a series of columns on ...

  15. Aristotle: His Life and School

    D. S. Hutchinson has delivered a meticulously edited and revised English translation of Carlo Natali's standard-setting philosophical biography of Aristotle. [1] The result is an outstanding, accessible book that manages to improve on its predecessor, blending narrative concision with a comprehensive appraisal of the sources and shifting gracefully between storytelling, detective work, and ...

  16. Aristotle

    Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist who, through his works in numerous fields, exerted an unparalleled influence in the west for almost two millennia. A friend King Philip II of Macedonia, Aristotle served as a tutor for Philip's son, the future Alexander the Great. During his lifetime, Aristotle wrote ...

  17. Biography

    Born in 384 BCE in Stagira, in the northwest of Greece, Aristotle, unlike Plato, was not a scion of high-born Athenian aristocracy, nor even a citizen of Athens. He was a resident alien (a "metic"), a foreigner who was deprived of political rights. Nevertheless, he was from a renowned family. His father Nicomachus was a royal physician at ...

  18. Aristotle Facts & Biography

    Aristotle. Born: 384 BC in Stagira, Chalcidice. Died: 322 BC (at age 61-62) in Euboea. Nationality: Greek. Fields: Peripatetic school, Aristotelianism. Famous For: A founder of Western philosophy. Though he lived more than two millennia ago, Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) is still considered one of the most influential philosophers of the West.

  19. Aristotle: life, works, main ideas and contributions

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher who was born in Stagira and died in the city of Chalcis. Disciple of Plato and founder of the Lyceum, he is considered to be one of the greatest thinkers of all time. His ideas and reflections, collected in almost 200 treatises (of which only 31 have survived), have influenced Western ...

  20. Aristotle

    Learn more about the life of Greek philosopher Aristotle, whose work profoundly influenced the modern scientific method, in this mini biography. #BiographySu...

  21. Aristotle

    April 1, 2019 by Learnodo Newtonic. Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential people in history. Born in Stagira, Greece, Aristotle lost both his parents at the age of 13 and consequently the husband of his elder sister became his guardian. From the age of 17 to 37, Aristotle ...

  22. Rhetoric (Aristotle)

    Most English readers in the 20th century relied on four translations of the Rhetoric. [citation needed] The first, by Richard C. Jebb, was published in 1909. [7]The next two translations were published in the 1920s. John H. Freese's translation was published as a part of the Loeb Classical Library [8] while W. Rhys Roberts' was published as a part of the Oxford University series of works in ...

  23. Aristotle Short biography in English

    @YashSirClasses Here in this video I have described about Aristotle biography for kids Video. I hope you will really like this Aristotle biography. Aristotle...