... in Stagire, Greece. Like Plato, he was also born into wealth because his father was a doctor. Aristotle was extremely bright, and tutored Alexander the Great when his teacher, Plato, died of a heart attack. He left later to open his own school similar to the Academy, the Lyceum. When Alexander died, he was charged with impiety, being irrelevant to a religion, like Socrates was ... . He managed to live four more years and died of Pneumonia. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all had different philosophies though they learned from each other. Socrates encourages people to lead moral ... educa...

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... lineage of four great minds; Socrates the teacher of Plato, Plato the teacher of Aristotle, and Aristotle teaches Alexander the Great. After Plato's death, Aristotle left to become Alexander's teacher, whom is heir to the King of Macedonia. He returned to Athens to build his own philosophical school, named the Lyceum. He married twice and with his second wife, he had a son, Nicomachus ... (Magee 32). He spent twelve years in Athens until the death of Alexander. The anti-Macedonian Athenians indicted Alexander for "impiety," and he left according to D. J. O"Conner, because he wanted to "...

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... the the best of artists, athletes, scientists and other great thinkers. A major contribution of the ancient Greeks was the emergence of some of history's greatest philosophers. Three of these men - Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato, have permanently changed the way people think, believe and process the intricacies of human thought. One of the greatest philosophers was Socrates (469-399BC.), a citizen of ... Alexander the Great. He was a student of Academy, and then later founded his own school known as Lyceum. Most of his writings were about politics, poetry, ethics, botany, physics, metaph...

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