Espinosa, Mhico A.

ARISTOTLE

Who is Aristotle?

Aristotle, Greek Aristoteles, (born 384 BCE, Stagira, Chalcidice, Greece—died 322, Chalcis, Euboea),
ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, one of the greatest intellectual figures of Western history. He
was the author of a philosophical and scientific system that became the framework and vehicle for both
Christian Scholasticism and medieval Islamic philosophy. Even after the intellectual revolutions of
the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, Aristotelian concepts remained embedded in
Western thinking. He was the founder of formal logic, devising for it a finished system that for centuries
was regarded as the sum of the discipline; and he pioneered the study of zoology, both observational
and theoretical, in which some of his work remained unsurpassed until the 19th century.

Life/Biography

Aristotle is the greatest philosopher of all time. He was born in 384 B.C.E. in the Macedonian region of
northeastern Greece in the small city of Stagira. Aristotle was sent to Athens at about the age of
seventeen to study in Plato’s Academy, then a pre-eminent place of learning in the Greek world. In 343,
upon the request of Philip, the king of Macedon, Aristotle left Lesbos for Pella, the Macedonian capital,
in order to tutor the king’s thirteen-year-old son, Alexander. In Athens, Aristotle set up his own school
in a public exercise area dedicated to the god Apollo Lykeios, whence its name, the Lyceum. During this
period, Aristotle’s wife, Pythias, died and he developed a new relationship with Herpyllis, perhaps like
him a native of Stagira, though her origins are disputed, as is the question of her exact relationship to
Aristotle. They had children together, including a son, Nicomachus, named for Aristotle’s father.

Contribution in the philosophy

 Invented the Logic of the Categorical Syllogism is a certain form of reasoning where a
conclusion is made based on two premises. These premises always have a common or middle
term to associate them, but this binding term is absent in the conclusion. This process of logical
deduction was invented by Aristotle, and perhaps lies at the heart of all his famous
achievements.
 Ethics Aristotelian ethics outline the different social and behavioral virtues of an ideal man.
 Aristotelianism Aristotelianism represents the philosophical tradition that takes its roots from
the various works of Aristotle in philosophy. The route of conventional philosophy is highly
influenced by different aspects of Aristotelian ideologies including his view on philosophical
methodology, epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, and many more.