Aristotle
Sign in to saveAristotle (; 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 that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.
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Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher (384–322 BC) whose writings explored an exceptionally wide range of subjects, from natural sciences and philosophy to politics, psychology, and the arts. He founded an influential school of philosophy in Athens that established traditions and methods which contributed foundational ideas to the development of modern science.
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- Born
- 384 BC
- Died
- 322 BC
- Works
- 2483
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- Aristotle's Dialectic
- Etica D'Aristotile
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Die Kathegorien des Aristoteles. Zweite Unveränderte Auflage
- Die Kathegorien des Aristoteles
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- Four causes
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- Chance and spontaneity
- Astronomy
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- Classification of living things
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- Economics
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Aristotle (; 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 that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.
Little is known about Aristotle's life. He was born in the city of Stagira in northern Greece during the Classical period. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. At around eighteen years old, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty seven (). Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored his son Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. He established a library in the Lyceum, which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls.