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Aristotle


Born
Stagira, Chalcidian league, Greece
Genre
Philosophy, Science, Ethics

Influences
Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus, Democritus ...more


384 BC–322 BC

Greek philosopher Aristotle, a pupil of Plato and the tutor of Alexander the Great, authored works on ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics that profoundly influenced western thought; empirical observation precedes theory, and the syllogism bases logic, the essential method of rational inquiry in his system, which led him to see and to criticize metaphysical excesses.

German religious philosopher Saint Albertus Magnus later sought to apply his methods to current scientific questions. Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the most influential thinker of the medieval period, combined doctrine of Aristotle within a context of Christianity.

Aristotle numbers among the greatest of all time. Almost peerless, he shaped centuri ...more

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle
tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics
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“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
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