Aristotle(384 Bce–322 Bce) Aristotle was born in Stagira, a Greek colony in Macedonia. His father was physician to the Macedonian king, and the family had both a tradition of learning and connections to the Macedonian elite. At the age of...
ARISTOTELIANISM is a school and style of philosophy that flourished throughout the Middle Ages in four languages and over three continents and that persists even now. Aristotle's school, the Lyceum, continued after his death under the leadership...
ARISTOTLE (384–322 BCE), along with Plato, was the greatest philosopher of antiquity. His influence on Western philosophical and scientific culture has been enormous, and even in the twenty-first century in many fields of knowledge (metaphysics,...
Aristotle (384–322 B.C.E.), born at Stagira, in northern Greece, was a philosopher and scientist, and a student of Plato (c. 428–c. 348 B.C.E.). The range and depth of Aristotle's thought is unsurpassed. He wrote on logic, physics...
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) remains the single most influential philosopher in Western history. His theories of substance and accidents, the four elements, and of elemental transformations and combinations, dominated Western matter theory, alchemy, and...
Aristotle's (384-322 B.C.) Physics was one of the most influential pieces of writing in science. It defined the field of physics for centuries after it was collated from Aristotle's notes by one of his students. It became the cornerstone...
Aristotle was born in northern Greece, in the town of Stagira, in 384 B.C.E. At seventeen, he went to Athens and became a student in Plato's Academy, where he remained for twenty years. Although greatly influenced by Plato and by the...
Prior to the seventeenth century, many of the most fundamental problems of physics concerned difficulties associated with local motion—changes in place or position. Medieval attempts to explain how and why such changes took place were developed...
In addition to his great reputation as a philosopher, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is also regarded as the father of biology and the first ecologist. Despite that fact that his observations on biology, astronomy, and physics comprise the vast majority of...
Aristotle was born in Stagira, a small Greek town on the coast of the Chalcidice peninsula in the northern Aegean, close to the Macedonian kingdom. His father was court physician to Amyntas III of Macedon. He studied with Plato in Athens from 367 to...
Aristotle. 384-322 B.C. Greek Philosopher By any measure, Aristotle ranks as one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived. He completely reworked Plato's philosophy and established it on a...
. The importance of the introduction of translated works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 B.C.) into medieval Christian thinking is one of the most often stated and least clear aspects of 13th-century history. Aristotle’s...
Philosopher 384 B. C. E. -322 B. C. E. Aristotle, Greek philosopher and scientist, was born in 384 B. C. E. in Stagira, northern Greece. He died in 322 B. C. E. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers in history. Aristotle,...
Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a thinker of the classical Greek period whose political theories, like those of Plato, set the bounds of political discourse throughout the Middle Ages; his work still exercises a profound influence on modern political...
. 384–22 BC. Pupil of PLATO, after whose death he travelled round the Aegean (and was tutor to Alexander the Great), and then founded Lyceum in Athens (355 BC; also called Peripatos; hence ‘Peripatetics’). His interests were...
One of the earliest writers on economics who anticipated many later debates on value, money and economic systems. In the Nichomachean Ethics, Book V, he discussed the nature of value in the context of a discussion of justice; in Topica, he anticipated...
384-322 B.C. Greek philosopher who is considered the most influential ancient philosopher of the sciences. Aristotle wrote founding texts in physics, astronomy, meteorology, psychology, and biology. A student of Plato and a member of the Academy, his...
