Born

384 BC
Stageira, Chalcidice

Died

322 BC
Euboea

School/tradition

Peripatetic school
Aristotelianism

Main interests

Physics, Metaphysics, Poetry, Theater, Music, Rhetoric, Politics, Government, Ethics, Biology, Zoology

Notable ideas

Golden mean, Reason, Logic, Passion

 
 
 

Information Corner

*He studied (367-347 B.C.) under Plato.

*(342-339 B.C.) tutored Alexander the Great at the Macedonian court.

*In 335 B.C. he opened a school in the Athenian Lyceum.

*After Alexander's death Aristotle fled (323 B.C.) to Chalcis, where he died.

*His extant writings, largely in the form of lecture notes made by his students, include the Organum, Physics; Metaphysics; De Anima Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics; Politics; De Poetica; Rhetoric; and works on biology and physics.





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