Aristotle

Aristotlte is a significant today for several reasons. He was a Greece philosopher that wrote in several different subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology. His teacher was Plato, and he educated Alexander the Great in philosophy. Even though the majority of his writings are lost, and only about one third of the original work survived, all aspects of Aristotlte’s philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study even today. Aristotle was born in 384 BCE. at Stagirus, a Greece colony and seaport on the coast of Thrace. Aristotle's father was Nicomachus, a doctor who lived near Macedon, in the north of Greece. So unlike Socrates and Plato, Aristotle was not originally from Athens. While he was still a boy his father died. At the age of 17, his guardian, Proxenus, sent him to Athens, the intellectual center of the world, to complete his education. He studied under Plato, attending his lectures for a period of twenty years. When Plato died, Aristotle returned to his native Macedonia, where he is supposed to have participated in the education of Philip's son, Alexander (the Great). He came back to Athens with Alexander's approval in 335 and established his own school at the Lyceum, spending most of the rest of his life engaged there in research, teaching, and writing. One of Aristotle's views is that the lives of individual human beings are invariably linked together in a social context. In the book he wrote about politics, he speculated about the origins of the state, described and assessed the relative merits of various types of government, and listed the obligations of the individual citizen. This is some of the reasons why Arirstotle is significant even today. Sources: [] [] [] [] `School of Athens' by Raphael.
 * //Aristotle 384-322 BCE//**

Bust of Aristotle. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek bronze original by Lysippos from 330 BC; the alabaster mantle is a modern addition.

Aristotle portrayed in the 1493, Nuremberg Chronicleas as a 15th-century -A.D. scholar