![]() ![]() ![]() The school and its students acquired the label of ‘Peripatetics’ (coming from the Greek for ‘to walk around’), owing to Aristotle’s habit of walking around the grove while delivering his lectures. ![]() He studied under Plato until the latter’s death 20 years later, whereupon Aristotle left Athens and became tutor to a young Alexander the Great.Īristotle later returned to Athens and founded his own school in the Lyceum. Consequently, like Plato, Aristotle holds a unique influence on almost every form of knowledge in the West, and his writings continue to be a subject of contemporary debate today.īorn in 384 BCE in Northern Greece, Aristotle joined Plato’s Academy in Athens when he was approximately 17 years old, quickly becoming Plato’s most brilliant student. It was largely from Aristotle’s works that the West inherited its entire intellectual approach, including the problems it investigates and its methods of inquiry. Over his lifetime, he transformed most of the subjects he investigated, writing as many as 200 treatises (of which only 31 survive) on topics ranging from logic, politics, and ethics, to biology, mathematics, and metaphysics. Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who, like his legendary teacher Plato (and his legendary teacher, Socrates), is considered to be one of the most significant figures in the history of Western philosophy. ![]()
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