Aristotle
Greek philosopher · Academics · Lived 384 BC to 322 BC · aged 62
Aristotle is read about 9,484 times a day, in 234 languages.
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Something wrong?He tutored Alexander the Great, founded a school that shaped two millennia of thought, and wrote the first systematic study of logic - yet only a third of his work survived, none of it meant for publication.
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School of Aristotle in Mieza, Macedonia, Greece
"Aristotle tutoring Alexander" (1895) by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
Portrait bust of Aristotle; an Imperial Roman (1st or 2nd century AD) copy of a lost bronze sculpture made by Lysippos![Plato (left) and Aristotle in Raphael's 1509 fresco, The School of Athens. Aristotle holds his Nicomachean Ethics and gestures to the earth, representing his view in immanent realism, whilst Plato gestures to the heavens, indicating his Theory of Forms, and holds his Timaeus.[47][48]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Sanzio_01_Plato_Aristotle.jpg/500px-Sanzio_01_Plato_Aristotle.jpg)
Plato (left) and Aristotle in Raphael's 1509 fresco, The School of Athens. Aristotle holds his Nicomachean Ethics and gestures to the earth, representing his view in immanent realism, whilst Plato gestures to the heavens, indicating his Theory of Forms, and holds his Timaeus.[47][48]
Plato's forms exist as universals, like the ideal form of an apple. For Aristotle, both matter and form belong to the individual thing (hylomorphism).
Aristotle argued that a capability like playing the flute could be acquired - the potential made actual - by learning.In their own words 10
, Philosophy is the science of truth.
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
Nature does not do anything in vain.
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About this person
Born in Stagira in 384 BC, Aristotle lost his father as a child and was raised by a guardian. At eighteen he entered Plato's Academy in Athens, staying until thirty-seven. After Plato's death in 347 BC, he left the city and later tutored Philip II's son, Alexander, beginning in 343 BC. He returned to Athens to establish the Lyceum and its library, producing hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls across philosophy, natural sciences, politics, linguistics, psychology, and the arts. His synthesis of prior philosophies set the groundwork for modern science, and his physical theories held until the Enlightenment. Medieval Muslim scholars called him "The First Teacher"; Thomas Aquinas and the scholastics knew him simply as "The Philosopher." His logic was studied into the 19th century, and his ethics still anchors contemporary virtue theory.
Academics born in the 390s BC 3
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