Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and was born in 348 B.C. He studied
under another philopsopher Plato and later tutored Alexander the Great at the
Macedonian court. In 335 B.C. he opened a school in the Athenian Lyceum. During
the anti-macedonian agitation after Alexander's death Aristotle fled to Chalcis
where he later died in 322 B.C. His extant writings, largely in the form of
lecture notes made by his students, include the Organum (treatises of logic);
Physics; Metaphysics; De Anima (on the soul); Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian
Ethics; Politics: De Poetica: Rhetoric; and works biology and physics.
Aristotle held philosophy to be the the discerning, through the use of
systematic logic as expressed in Syllogisms, of the self-evident, changeless
first principles that form the basis of all knowledge. He taught that knowledge
of a thing requires an inquiry into causality and that the "final cause"-the
purpose or function of the thing-is primary.
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