... "the mind" of the academy. Aristotle was born 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 ... still used today. He classified plants and animals and came...

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... the class. This accommodation leads to the direct 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 a...

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... the years noted for the rising and falling of the Greek city-states. The Hellenistic period lasted from 334 to 146BC, and is most commonly known as the period of Alexander the Great. These centuries are considered by many to be the most creative and influential period in history. The Hellenistic period brought out the the best of artists, athletes, scientists ... sharpen their minds. He said, exercising the mind intensively increases the ability to think more excessively. Aristotle (384-322 BC), also a Greek Philosopher, was a student of Plato and a tutor of Alexander the Great. He was ...

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... of the phenomena of the universe through the use of experimental observation and/or logical reasoning. It was introduce by Alexander the Great in his creation of the Library of Alexandria. This gave consent to the pursuit of knowledge and, since Alexander was taught by a natural philosopher, to the study of natural philosophy. In Ancient Greece (480-323 BCE), natural philosophers observed ... ...

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... them. Hence arises another discrepancy between a democracy and an empire. In order to flourish, an empire requires the guidance and control of a single person, such as in the cases of Alexander or Napoleon. This not being the case in Athens, majority of the war decisions were influenced by war generals such as Alcibiades. This created a social hierarchy of power, contradicting the ... ...

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... , and his personal favorite, a constitutional government. After much comparison, he believed that the latter type of government worked the best for most people. Aristotle went on to be a tutor for Alexander the Great. Aristotle, unlike Plato, was not focused or concerned about the idea of a perfect society, instead he wanted to improve upon the one that he was part of during ... ...

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... Academy, until the time of Plato's death. He moved around after leaving the Academy, going from Asia Minor, to the Island of Lesbos, to even spending several years with a young Alexander the Great as his personal tutor. Aristotle's theories and works included different fields, from logic, philosophy, and ethics to physics, biology, psychology, politics, and rhetoric. The goal of his treatises ... ...

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... Plato along with a group of other philosophers until he was put to death by the government of Athens. He was convicted with atheism and treason and sentenced to drink poison. Alexander the Great was the king of Macedonia. He studied under Aristotle as a youth. Later, he united Greece, and spread the Greek empire over a vast amount of area. He devised new ... ...

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... and experience versus what the parties insist is best for me. Aristotle has been described as the ultimate genius centuries ahead of his time. His works inspired the likes of Alexander the Great, Galileo, Darwin, and Dante. But it will always be Plato to whom Aristotle is indelibly linked. Plato once called him, "the intelligence of the Academy". And while the ... ...

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