6/2/2023 0 Comments Politics and poetics aristotle![]() ![]() ![]() He established a library in the Lyceum which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored his son Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. At seventeen or eighteen years of age he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven ( c. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. He was born in the city of Stagira in northern Greece during the Classical period. ![]() As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science. His writings cover a broad range of subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, drama, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology, and government. See: List of writers influenced by Aristotle, Commentaries on Aristotle, Pseudo-AristotleĪristotle ( / ˈ ær ɪ s t ɒ t əl/ Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, pronounced 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. Averroism, Avicennism, Literary Neo-Aristotelianism, Maimonideanism, Objectivism, Peripatetics, Scholasticism ( Llullism, Neo, Scotism, Second, Thomism, etc.), additionally Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism. ![]()
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