Aristotle was born in Stagirus on northern Greece.
probably was born in Chalcidice or around that region. Aristotle's mother.
came from Chalcis where her family owned property. Aristotle did a lot of.
travelling with his father because doctors at the time made house calls.
Nicomachus moved from to the neighboring state of Macedonia. He had so.
much success there that he became the personal doctor of King Amyntas.
III. Aristotle became good friends with Philip, the King's son. When.
Aristotle was around ten his father died. His mother also died when he was.
very young so he had to live with his uncle, Proxenus of Atarneus. .
Proxenus taught Aristotle Greek, poetry and rhetoric. Rhetoric is.
using words to persuade others. That built the foundation of his early.
education which he used later in his life. In 367 BC Aristotle, age.
seventeen, became a student at Plato's Academy in Athens. Plato's.
Academy played a major role in influencing Aristotle's life. After being a.
student, Aristotle became a teacher at the Academy and stayed there for.
twenty years. At the end of Aristotle's twenty years at the Academy his.
position became difficult because of political events so he quit. His.
childhood friend, Philip, soon became King of Macedonia.
Aristotle travelled from Macedonia to Athens. Aristotle met Hermias.
of Atarneus. Aristotle acted as an ambassador for Philip and was treated like.
one by Hermias. Aristotle married Pythias, Hermias's niece. They had one.
child, a daughter named Pythias. Aristotle's wife died about 10 years after.
their marriage. Later Aristotle became the leader of the group of.
philosophers which Hermias had put together. Aristotle was interested in.
anatomy and living things because his father gave him that interest when.
he was younger. Aristotle did not marry again after the death of his wife but.
had a son with Herpyllis. They named him Nicomachus. In 335 BC.
Aristotle founded his own school in Athens. It covered a variety of subjects.
Aristotle "The range of Aristotle's interest and intellect is extraordinary. ... When Aristotle was about ten years old his father died. ... Proxenus taught Aristotle Greek, rhetoric, and poetry. ... Through Aristotle's life he accomplished many works. ... For Aristotle, psychology was a study of the soul. ...
Aristotle Consider Aristotle to be one of the three greatest thinkers of all time. ... The relationship between Aristotle and Plato was bittersweet. ... Categories contains example of Aristotle's logic deduction. ... Aristotle calls this prime mover God. ... Aristotle was the image of all wisdom in ancient humanity. ...
Proxenus taught Aristotle Greek poetry and rhetoric's. ... These works were Aristotle's thoughts on logic. ... Aristotle called logic, analytics. ... Aristotle also had his own philosophy of nature. ... Aristotle rejects the definition of space as the void. ...
Aristotle Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, and one of the greatest minds in human history. ... Aristotle was born in 384 BC to Nicomachus, a physician of Mayntas II of Macedon. ... Aristotle also came up with other very abstract theories. ... When Aristotle looked towards the sky, he realized they did not move in an up and down fashion. ... Aristotle retired to a family estate in Euboea in 322, and died one year later. ...
Of the 158 constitutional histories, only one, the Constitution of Athens, survives; scholars think that it was written by Aristotle himself. At any rate, Aristotle had a very large empirical database for his theorizing about politics. 2. ... Thus, to cities of human beings, Aristotle would compare schools of fish, flocks of geese, hives of bees, anthills, and so forth.] ... In Politics III.9 Aristotle argues against competing conceptions of the nature and purpose of a political system. ... How could a political liberal object to Aristotle's argument for his paternalistic principle?...
Weeks English 101 10/21/01 Aristotle was a student at the academy of Plato in Athens, from age 17 to 37. ... In the essay "A Definition of Justice" Aristotle tries to explain that justice is interpreted different by everyone. ... Aristotle bases his concept of justice on the idea of equality. ... Aristotle says that most men believe justice to be equality, but not for all, but only for equals. ... Many of Aristotle's ideas are still problems in society today. ...
Aristotle was a teacher and studied under Plato at the academy and attended his lectures for a period of twenty years. ... I believe that according to Aristotle, the state was the beginning of all. ... This is why I think that Aristotle believed the state came first. ... Aristotle wrote much about rationality and irrationality of humans, and how much of each we share with animals. ... Aristotle felt the city is more important than the individual in some ways and because the city exists for the sake of living well, virtue must be a care for the city. ...
Aristotle believed that a person who has difficulty behaving ethically is morally imperfect. ... According to Aristotle, we only should be praised and blamed for which we can be held responsible. ... In book IV, Aristotle points out that honor, pleasure, and wealth are the things believed to make people happy. ... By distributive justice, Aristotle means fairness in exchange and fairness in the distribution of goods. ... Furthermore, Aristotle argues that people act justly or unjustly voluntary. ...
Based on Aristotle's view of political science, politicians need to determine which sciences need to be in communities. ... They see this type of advance to be a great benefit to society, in agreement to Aristotle's view of political science. ... According to Aristotle, means are pursued to achieve certain aims. ... Aristotle would argue that their ends are being pursued for their own fulfillment rather than society as a whole. ... Politicians are currently trying to keep the main intent of political science based on Aristotle. ...
