Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath who founded the Peripatetic school in Athens. He wrote on subjects from logic and ethics to politics and the natural sciences.
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Born in Stageira, Greece
Influenced by Plato
About Aristotle
Aristotle lived from 384 to 322 BC. He was born in Stagira, in northern Greece, and lost his father, Nicomachus, as a child. At around eighteen he joined Plato's Academy in Athens, where he stayed until about 347 BC. Soon after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens. At the invitation of Philip II of Macedon, he began tutoring Alexander the Great in 343 BC. He later founded the Peripatetic school at the Lyceum in Athens, where he built a library that helped him produce his many books. He wrote about politics, economics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, the arts and the natural sciences. Roughly one third of his output is thought to survive today. Our catalog includes Politics, The Art of Rhetoric and Nicomachean Ethics.