Aristotle

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ancient Greek philosopher biologist ethicist human logician metaphysician philosopher political philosopher polymath rhetorician scientist

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and natural science profoundly shaped Western thought and intellectual history.

Aliases (1)

the works of Aristotle ×1

Statements (90)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek philosopher → biologist → ethicist → human → logician → metaphysician → philosopher → political philosopher → polymath → rhetorician → scientist →
birthDate	384 BC →
birthName	Aristotle →
birthPlace	Chalcidice → Macedon → Stagira →
child	Nicomachus →
countryOfCitizenship	Ancient Greece →
deathDate	322 BC →
deathPlace	Chalcis → Euboea →
developed	doctrine of substance → doctrine of the mean → hylomorphism → syllogistic logic → teleological view of nature → theory of the four causes → unmoved mover concept → virtue ethics →
educatedAt	Plato's Academy →
employer	Macedonian court →
era	Ancient philosophy → Classical Greek philosophy →
ethnicGroup	Greek →
father	Nicomachus of Stagira →
fieldOfWork	biology → epistemology → ethics → logic → metaphysics → natural science → ontology → philosophy → poetics → political theory → psychology → rhetoric →
founded	Lyceum →
influenced	Alexander the Great → Averroes → Christian theology → Islamic philosophy → Jewish philosophy → Maimonides → Theophrastus → Thomas Aquinas → Western philosophy → medieval scholasticism →
influencedBy	Plato → Pre-Socratic philosophers → Socrates →
knownFor	comprehensive philosophical system → foundational work in formal logic → systematic treatises across many disciplines →
languageOfWorkOrName	Ancient Greek →
mother	Phaestis →
movement	Peripatetic school →
notableStudent	Alexander the Great → Theophrastus →
notableWork	Categories → Generation of Animals → History of Animals → Metaphysics → Nicomachean Ethics → On Interpretation → On the Soul → Parts of Animals → Physics → Poetics → Politics → Posterior Analytics → Prior Analytics → Rhetoric →
occupation	teacher → tutor →
proposed	geocentric cosmology →
religion	ancient Greek religion →
schoolTradition	Aristotelianism →
spouse	Pythias →
studentOf	Plato →

Referenced by (107)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Al-Farabi → Al-Kindi → An Essay Concerning Human Understanding → Averroes → Avicenna → Bernard Williams → Boethius → Carl Menger → Charles Hartshorne → Christian Wolff → Chrysippus of Soli → Cicero → Commentaries on Aristotle → Dante Alighieri → De ente et essentia → Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems → Duns Scotus → Elizabeth Anscombe → Empiricism → Francis Bacon → Francisco de Vitoria → G. W. F. Hegel → Galileo Galilei → George Boole → Gersonides → Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → Gotthold Ephraim Lessing → J. L. Austin → Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples → Jacques Maritain → John Stuart Mill → John Stuart Mill → Leonardo Bruni → Maimonides → Martha Nussbaum → Martin Heidegger → Monadology → Montesquieu → Mortimer Adler → Murray Rothbard → Niccolò Machiavelli → Panaetius of Rhodes → Philosophy of Right → Pico della Mirandola → Plotinus → Posidonius of Apamea → René Descartes → Samuel ibn Tibbon → Scholastic theology → St. Thomas Aquinas → Stanley Hauerwas → Summa Theologiae → Summa contra Gentiles → Thomas Hobbes → five ways to prove the existence of God →	influencedBy
Generation of Animals → History of Animals → Metaphysics (Aristotle) → Nicomachean Ethics → On Interpretation → On the Soul → Parts of Animals → Poetics → Politics → Posterior Analytics → Prior Analytics → Rhetoric →	author
Anaxagoras → Eleatic school → Empedocles → Heraclitus → Ionian school → Parmenides → Plato → Presocratic philosophers → Pythagoras → Thales of Miletus → Zeno of Elea →	influenced
Thales of Miletus → Zeno of Elea →	describedBySource
Lyceum of Aristotle → Peripatetic school →	foundedBy
Classical Greek philosophy → Western philosophy →	hasKeyFigure
Classical Greece → Greek Antiquity →	hasNotablePhilosopher
Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn → Guide for the Perplexed →	philosophicalInfluence
Aristotelian physics ("the works of Aristotle") →	basedOn
Aristotle →	birthName
Sophists →	criticizedBy
The School of Athens →	depicts
Parmenides →	discussedBy
A History of Western Philosophy →	discusses
Presocratic philosophers →	documentedBy
Adventure Story →	hasCharacter
Classical period →	hasMajorFigure
Loeb Classical Library →	includesAuthor
Commentaries on Aristotle →	mainSubject
Aristotelianism →	namedAfter
Classical Athens →	notablePhilosopher
Academy of Athens (ancient) →	notableStudent
Lyceum of Aristotle →	notableTeacher
Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers →	philosophersCovered
Alexander the Great →	teacher
Plato →	teacherOf
Attic Greek →	usedBy