Aristotle

Who is Aristotle?

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath born in Stagira in northern Greece. A student of Plato at the Academy, he later tutored Alexander the Great and founded his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens. His writings span an extraordinary range of subjects, including logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, biology, physics, rhetoric, and poetics. He developed formal logic through his system of syllogisms and pioneered empirical observation in the natural sciences, cataloguing hundreds of animal species. His ethical philosophy, centered on the concept of virtue and the doctrine of the mean, remains foundational, as does his political analysis in the Politics. Aristotle's works were preserved and studied across the medieval Islamic and Christian worlds, earning him the epithet "the Philosopher" among later scholars, and his influence on Western intellectual tradition is immense.

Sources: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics · Aristotle, Politics · Aristotle, Metaphysics