Aristotle
Aristotle ( 384 – 322 BC ),born at Stagira, in Macedon, where his father was physician to the king Amyntas II . Sent to Athens in 367 , he studied under Plato for 20 years. Then after a period of travel he was appointed by Philip of Macedon to be tutor to the future Alexander the Great in 342 and seven years later returned to Athens where he opened a school in the Lyceum, a grove outside the city. His extant works are believed to have been the notes he used for his lectures. They cover logic, ethics, metaphysics, physics, zoology, politics, rhetoric, and poetics. Transmitted through translations, they shaped the development of medieval thought first in the Arab world, then in the Latin West, where Aristotle came to be regarded as the source of all knowledge. His logical treatises won a central place in the curriculum during the 12th cent. Then after a brief struggle his ethical, metaphysical, and scientific...
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