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Aristotle

Also known as the Stagirite

Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.

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Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher (384–322 BC) whose writings explored an exceptionally wide range of subjects, from natural sciences and philosophy to politics, psychology, and the arts. He founded an influential school of philosophy in Athens that established traditions and methods which contributed foundational ideas to the development of modern science.

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Born: 384 BC
Died: 322 BC
Works: 2484

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Aristotelis Ethicoru[m] libros Latinos facere nuper institui no[n] quia prius traducti non e[ss]ent ...
Decem librorum Moralium Aristotelis
Contenta Politicorum libri octo ... ; Economicorum [libri] duo
Politicorum libri octo
Aristotle's Dialectic

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Gender: Male
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Quotes

“My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.”
“Nature does not do anything in vain.”
“Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”
“We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus [all things being equal] of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses—in short from fewer premisses; for... given that all these are equally well known, where they are fewer knowledge will be more speedily acquired, and that is a desideratum. The argument implied in our contention that demonstration from fewer assumptions is superior may be set out in universal form...”
“The science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be.”
“It is necessary that every thing which is harmonized, should be generated from that which is void of harmony, and that which is void of harmony from that which is harmonized. ...But there is no difference, whether this is asserted of harmony, or of order, or composition... the same reason will apply to all of these.”

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Key facts

Philosopher.name: Aristotle
Philosopher.image: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575.jpg
Philosopher.main_interests: Logic Natural philosophy Metaphysics Ethics Politics Rhetoric Poetics
Philosopher.caption: Roman copy (in marble) of a Greek bronze bust of Aristotle by Lysippos (), with modern alabaster mantle
Philosopher.birth_date: 384 BC
Philosopher.birth_place: Stagira, Chalcidian League
Philosopher.death_place: Chalcis, Euboea, Macedonian Empire
Philosopher.education: Platonic Academy
Philosopher.region: Western philosophy
Philosopher.school_tradition: Peripatetic school
Philosopher.era: Ancient Greek philosophy
Philosopher.notable_students: Alexander the Great, Theophrastus, Aristoxenus
Philosopher.notable_ideas: Aristotelianism
Philosopher.notable_works: Organon Physics Metaphysics Nicomachean Ethics Politics Rhetoric Poetics
Philosopher.native_name_lang: el

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Place of birth: Stageira
Image: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575.jpg

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Commons category: Aristotle
date of birth: 0383-00-00
date of death: 0322-03-07
Commons gallery: Aristotelēs
Commons Creator page: Aristotle
name in native language: Ἀριστοτέλης
P8168: Manuela Levorato
Stack Exchange tag: philosophy.stackexchange.com/tags/aristotle
place of burial: Stageira
P12749: Friedrich Ludewig Bouterwek
P13311: mathematics
significant place: Stageira

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Works in European collections

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Aristotelus Ēthikōn Nikomacheiōn Biblia Deka = Aristotelis Ethicorvm Ad Nicomachvm Libri Decem

Aristotelus technēs rhētorike biblia g = Aristotelis de arte dicendi libri tres

Works. 2.1, Abth 2, Organon, or writings on logic; 1. Tendrils, categories. From speech, as an expression of thoughts

Aristotelis politicorum libri octo

Auctoritates Aristotelis, Senece, Boetii, Platonis, Apulei Affricani, Empedoclis Porphirii et Guilberti Porritani

Martini Borrhai Stugardiani in tres Aristotelis de Arte dicendi libros commentaria :Hermolai Barbari, eorundem versio, cum graeco textu capitibus suis distincto et figuris Aristotelicam methodum indicantibus illustrato ; cum indice

Aristotelus Meteōrologikōn biblia D :Graeca verba post Bekkerum ad interpretum graecorum auctoritatem, codicum veterumque editionum fidem denuo recensuit, latinam interpretationem partim novam, partim Vicomercati refictam additit, excerpta ex commentariis Alexandri, Olympiodori, et Ioannis Philoponi, suos commentarios, indices verborum ac rerum adiecit et praefatus est. 2, Libros duo posteriores cum commentariis, Alexandri Aphrodisaei Libellum de mistione et indices continens

Aristotelis Categoriae

Aristotelis de interpretatione liber

Aristotelis Partitionum posteriorum, sive demonstrantis scientiae Libri II

Aristotelis Topicorum lib. VIII

Aristotelis De reprehensionibus fallacibus et captiosis, liber

Aristotelis de Virtutibus Lib.

Aristoltelis ad Nicomachum filium de Moribus, quae Ethica nominantur, Libri decem

De moribus ad Nicomachum

Aristotelis rhetoricorum ad Theodecten.

Rettorica et poetica d'Aristotile. Tradotte… da Bernardo Segni

Opera omnia, ex optimis quibusque interpretibus collecta, aliquot libris aucta ... scholiis illustrata (etc.)

Ethicorum sive moralium Nicomachiorum libri decem, una cum Eustratii, Aspasii, Michaelis Ephesii, nonnullorumque aliorum Graecorum explanationibus: nuper a Joanne Bernardo Feliciano latinitate donati

La philosofia moral del Aristotel: es asaber Ethicas: Polithicas: y Economicas: en Romançe

Opusculum Aristotelis De Sensibus Atque De His Quae Cadunt In Sensum, Vel De Sensuum Instrumentis. Alexandrique Aphrodisiei Commentarium non antea e Graeco in Latinum Conversum. Lucillus Philalthaeus Vertebat. Michaelis Ephesii Scholia In Aristotelis Libros aliquot, nempe: De Juventute, senectute, vita et morte. De Longitudine ac brevitate vitae. De Divinatione per somnum

Aristotelis Peri Hermenias Hoc Est De Interpretatione Liber: A Magno Avgvstino Nipho Philosopho Svessano Interpretatvs Et Expositvs

De generatione et interitu libri II, a Flamino Nobilio in latinam linguam conversi et explicatione illustrati. Tom 1.2

Naturalium quaestionum libri omnes ... partim interprete Joanne Argyropylo, partim Francisco Vatablo

Lucilli Philalthei Commentarij in duos primos libros Arist. auscultatorios nunc primum in lucem editi, cum quaestionibus et responsis diligenter conscriptis (etc.)

Paraphrasis in XIV libros de prima philosophia cum adnotationibus et quaestionibus in loca obsuriora Antonio Scayno auctore

Aristotle categories: <Des Organon first part.> Advance: The Porphyrius introduction into the categories. New translated and annotated by Eug. Rolfes

Die quality Politik des Aristoteles. 2

Aristotle stoōn Bib. 8: Cum Indice locupletissimo = Aristotelis Politicorum Libri Octo

Aristotelis Stagyritae Libri tres de el: cum singulorum epitomis hactenus non impressis: ac postillis. M. Anto. Zimarae...

Aristotelis Physicarum acroasum hoc est naturalium auscultationum liber interprete atque expositore Eutyco Augustino Nipho phyloteo Suessano nuper ab eodem reuisus et recognitus ad Marcum Antonium Columnam strenuissimum ducem. Adimendo quicquid deficiebat: cassandoque quicquid redundabat: additis etiam in margine pulcherrimis quotationibus quibus facilior auctoris sit intellectus

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Aristotelis Organon: hoc est, Libri ad logicam disciplinam pertinent. Addita in fine varia locorum lectio, tum e vetustis, tum e recentioribus exemplaribus: emendationes etiam nonnullae ex doctorum virorum aduersariis desumptae: adhaec index capitum, & duo rerum ac verborum notatu digniorum inuentaria, Latinum & Graecum

Aristotelis, Alexandri, et Cassii Problemata, cum Theophrasteorum quorundam collectaneis. ..

Aristotelis sententiae omnes vndiqvaqve selectissimae Qvae indicis vice in absoluta, & integra eius opera esse queant, postremò iam editae

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Article

57 sections

Contents

Life
Theoretical philosophy
Logic
''Organon''
Syllogism
Demonstration
Metaphysics
Substance
Moderate realism
Potentiality and actuality
Natural philosophy
Physics
Five elements
Motion
Four causes
Optics
Chance and spontaneity
Astronomy
Geology and natural sciences
Biology
Empirical research
Scientific style
Classification of living things
Psychology
Soul
Memory
Dreams
Practical philosophy
Ethics
Politics
Economics
Rhetoric
Poetics
Legacy
Ancient
Hellenistic period
Early Roman empire
Late antiquity
Medieval
Medieval Byzantine empire
Medieval Islamic world
Medieval Judaism
Medieval Western Europe
Modern era
Early Modern science
18th and 19th-century science
Present science
Depictions in art
Paintings
Sculptures
Eponyms
See also
Notes
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Little is known about Aristotle's life. He was born in the city of Stagira in northern Greece during the Classical period. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. At around eighteen years old, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty seven (). Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored his son Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. He established a library in the Lyceum, which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls.