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    • Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 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 Aris… See more

    a Master of Many Fields
    a Master of Many Fields
    The Philosopher of Wisdom
    The Philosopher of Wisdom
    Life

    In general, the details of Aristotle's life are not well-established. The biographies written in ancient times are often speculative and historians only agree on a few salient points. Most information about Aristotle's li… See more

    Born384 BC · Stagira, Chalcidian League
    Died322 BC (aged 61–62) · Chalcis, Euboea, Macedonian Empire
    EducationPlatonic Academy
    Notable workOrganon · Physics · Metaphysics · Nicomachean Ethics · Politics · Rhetoric · Poetics
    Theoretical philosophy

    With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th-century advances in mathematical logic. Kant stated in the … See more

    Natural philosophy

    Aristotle's "natural philosophy" spans a wide range of natural phenomena including those now covered by physics, biology and other natural sciences. In Aristotle's terminology, "natural philosophy" is a branch of p… See more

    Practical philosophy

    Aristotle's practical philosophy covers areas such as ethics, politics, economics, and rhetoric.
    Aristotle considered ethics to be a practical rather than theoretical study, i.e., one aimed at b… See more

    Transmission

    More than 2300 years after his death, Aristotle remains one of the most influential people who ever lived. He contributed to almost every field of human knowledge then in existence, and he was the founder of many ne… See more

    Surviving works

    The works of Aristotle that have survived from antiquity through medieval manuscript transmission are collected in the Corpus Aristotelicum. These texts, as opposed to Aristotle's lost works, are technical philosophic… See more

    Depictions in art

    Aristotle has been depicted by major artists including Lucas Cranach the Elder, Justus van Gent, Raphael, Paolo Veronese, Jusepe de Ribera, Rembrandt, and Francesco Hayez over the centuries. Among the best-known depi… See more

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    A comprehensive overview of Aristotle's life, works, and influence in ancient Greek philosophy. Learn about his contributions to logic, natural philosophy, ethics, and politics, as well as his criticism of Plato and his relation to …

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    What is Aristotle's practical philosophy?
    Aristotle's practical philosophy covers areas such as ethics, politics, economics, and rhetoric. [ 41 ] Aristotle considered ethics to be a practical rather than theoretical study, i.e., one aimed at becoming good and doing good rather than knowing for its own sake.

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    Who is Aristotle?
    Aristotle Aristotle, marble portrait bust, Roman copy (2nd century bce) of a Greek original (c. 325 bce); in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy. Chaplain; Instructor in Philosophy, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Staff Writer, Philosophy and Religion, Encyclopædia Britannica, Chicago, 1970–73.

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    When was Aristotle born?
    Born in 384 B.C.E. in the Macedonian region of northeastern Greece in the small city of Stagira (whence the moniker ‘the Stagirite’, which one still occasionally encounters in Aristotelian scholarship), Aristotle was sent to Athens at about the age of seventeen to study in Plato’s Academy, then a pre-eminent place of learning in the Greek world.

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    Was Aristotle a natural historian?
    Aristotle is the earliest natural historian whose work has survived in some detail. He certainly did research on the natural history of Lesbos, and the surrounding seas and neighbouring areas. The works History of Animals, Generation of Animals and Parts of Animals have observations and interpretations, along with some myths and mistakes.

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    Where did Aristotle grow up?
    For treatment of Aristotelianism in the full context of Western philosophy, see philosophy, Western. 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).

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    What are Aristotle's general works in natural philosophy?
    Aristotle’s general works in natural philosophy offer analyses of concepts necessarily assumed in accounts of natural processes, including time, change, and place. In general, Aristotle will describe changes that occur in time as arising from a potential, which is actualized when the change is complete.

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    Aristotle’s contributions to philosophy and science

    Learn about Aristotle’s life and his contributions to philosophy and science from Britannica.com, an authoritative source of information. Explore his works on logic, ethics, politics, and more.

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    Learn about Aristotle, a Greek philosopher who taught Alexander the Great and wrote many books on various topics. Find out his views on logic, science, nature, ethics, politics and more.

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