I leave you the best phrases of Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC), philosopher of Ancient Greece, disciple of Plato, teacher of Alexander the Great and one of the most influential characters of the ancient world.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle was born in 384 BC in Stagira, Greece. When he turned 17, he enrolled in the Academy of Plato, who was his teacher and tutor. Shortly after Plato's death, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, taught Alexander the Great in 343 BC.
Teaching Alexander the Great gave him many opportunities and a better financial situation. In 335 BC he founded his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens, where he spent most of the rest of his life studying, teaching and writing. He died in 322 BC, after leaving Athens and fleeing to Chalcis.
His writings span many subjects, including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, and government. They constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy.
Aristotle's influence extended from late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and his teachings were not systematically replaced until the Enlightenment.
His works contain the first known formal study of logic, which was incorporated into modern formal logic in the late 19th century.
In metaphysics, Aristotelianism profoundly influenced Judeo-Islamic philosophical and theological thought during the Middle Ages and continues to influence Christian theology, especially the Neoplatonism of the classical Church and the scholastic tradition of the Roman Catholic Church.
Aristotle was well known among medieval Muslim intellectuals and revered as "The First Teacher." All aspects of his philosophy are still the subject of academic study today.
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