Aristotle





Aristotle

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Stageira, Chalcidice, Greece
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Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus, Democritus


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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.

Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately re...more


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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
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