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Aristotle. Brief Introduction. Representative: 何珊 Members: 滕春明 周文雅 姚洁 周凯. Aristotle. (384 BC – 322 BC)was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great .
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Aristotle Brief Introduction Representative: 何珊 Members: 滕春明 周文雅 姚洁 周凯
Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC)was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.
Lifetime Introduction • Aristotle was born of a well-to-do family in the Macedonian town of Stagira in 384 BCE. His father was a physician who died when Aristotle was young. In 367, when Aristotle was seventeen, his uncle sent him to Athens to study at Plato’s Academy. There he remained, first as a pupil, later as an associate, for the next twenty years.
In 343, Philip of Macedon invited Aristotle to his court to serve as tutor to his son Alexander, then thirteen years old. What instruction Aristotle gave to the young man who was to become Alexander the Great is not known, but it seems likely that Aristotle’s own interest in politics increased during his stay at the Macedonian court. In 340 Alexander was appointed regent for his father and his studies with Aristotle ended.
Achievements His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.
Physics Aristotle‘s views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval(中世纪的) scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance（文艺复兴）, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics.
☆ Metaphysics In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church and some strains of Eastern Orthodox thought.
Logic His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic.
Zoology In the zoological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the 19th century.
In general: All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues , it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.
