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    Aristotle was a Greek philosopher born in 384 BC who studied many subjects and wrote many works. He was a student of Plato and later tutored Alexander the Great. Some of his most influential works focused on physics, metaphysics, ethics, logic, and politics. He made theories on many topics including the elements, motion, and classification of animals.

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    Aristotle was a Greek philosopher born in 384 BC who studied many subjects and wrote many works. He was a student of Plato and later tutored Alexander the Great. Some of his most influential works focused on physics, metaphysics, ethics, logic, and politics. He made theories on many topics including the elements, motion, and classification of animals.

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    Liu,Richard Science,1b 11/17/10

    Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers in world history. He was a Greek philosopher to be exact.

    He was born in Stageira, Chalcidice in 384 B.C. His father was the personal physician for King Amyntas of Macedon. Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of Aristocracy. At about 18, He went to Athens to study at Plato s academy. He stayed there for about twenty years until he left at about 348/347 B.C. Aristotle traveled with Xenocrates to to the court of his friend Hermias of Atarneus. While he was in asia, He found a friend named Theophrastus and traveled to the island of lesbos. He studied bontany and zoology while there. Aristotle married Pythias, who was adoptive daughter of Hermias.

    They had a daughter and named her Pythias, like her mother. After Hermia s death, Philip II of Macedon invited Aristotle to be tutor of his son, Alexander the great. Aristotle accepted this request. He was also appointed head of the royal academy of Macedon. He didn t only teach Alexander the great, he also taught 2 more future kings, Ptolemy and Cassander. By 335 B.C. , he returned to Athens and opened a his own school there. The name of the school was Lyceum. Lyceum was there before Aristotle but Aristotle established his school there. He conducted courses there for the next 12 years. While he was in Athens, his wife Pythias died. He married another woman, Herpyllis. They had a son and they named him Nicomachus, like Aristotle s father. From 335 B.C. to 323 B.C. is when people believed he composed many of his works . He wrote dialogues which only pieces and fragments survived. He also wrote many papers that were treatises. His treatises included Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, De Anima, (On the Soul) and Poetics. Aristotle studied almost every subject possible. He studied anatomy, astronomy, embryology, geography, geology, meteorology, physics and zoology. In philosophy, he wrote on aesthetics, ethics, government, metaphysics, politics, economics, psychology, rhetoric and

    theology. When Alexander the Great died, Anti-Macedonian sentiment in Athens flared up again. Eurymedon the hierophant denounced Aristotle for not holding the god in honor. Aristotle fled the city and ran away to his mother s home Chalcis. He explained to his mother I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy. He died in Euboea of natural causes on the same year (322 B.C.) He left a will to be buried next to his wife. Logic

    There are 4 elements, fire, earth, air , and water. He invented a 5th element, called Aether. It is the heavenly substance that makes up the heavenly spheres and heavenly bodies (stars and planets) Philosophy is a subject on the universe anyways. Aether had no qualities ( it was not hot, cold, dry , or Wet) which means it can change. It had a rather circular perpetual motion. Aristotle was a philosopher so he didn t really invent anything but made theories. What is a good human life? Aristotle believes

    that (non-utilitarian)understanding is the highest and most excellent use of our reasoning capacities. So heconcludes that the best life open to any human being who has the ability, is a life devoted tothe pursuit of understanding for its own sake that is, the life of being a philosopher." He made many other theories, most about the universe. Modern days classify animals as
    vertebrae and invertebrate. But Aristotle called them animals with blood and animals without blood. Aristotle s successor, Theophratus, wrote a series of books on botany. I really think that Aristotle is one the greatest philosophers of all time.

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