Aristotle

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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.

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Aristotle canonical 431
Aristotele 1
Aristotelis 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek philosopher
biologist
ethicist
human
logician
metaphysician
philosopher
political philosopher
polymath
rhetorician
scientist
birthDate 384 BC
birthName Aristotle self-link
birthPlace Chalcidice
Macedon
Stagira
child Nicomachus
countryOfCitizenship Greek Antiquity
surface form: 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 Academy of Athens
surface form: Plato's Academy
employer Macedonian court
era Ancient philosophy
Classical Greek philosophy
ethnicGroup Greek
father Nicomachus
surface form: Nicomachus of Stagira
fieldOfWork biology
epistemology
ethics
logic
metaphysics
natural science
ontology
philosophy
poetics
political theory
psychology
rhetoric
founded Lyceum of Aristotle
surface form: Lyceum
influenced Alexander the Great
Averroes
Christian theology
Islamic philosophy
Jewish philosophy
Maimonides
Theophrastus
St. Thomas Aquinas
surface form: Thomas Aquinas

Western philosophy
medieval scholasticism
influencedBy Plato
Presocratic philosophers
surface form: 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

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Zeno of Elea influenced Aristotle
Empedocles influenced Aristotle
Chrysippus of Soli influencedBy Aristotle
Elizabeth Anscombe influencedBy Aristotle
J. L. Austin influencedBy Aristotle
Charles Hartshorne influencedBy Aristotle
Duns Scotus influencedBy Aristotle
Eleatic school influenced Aristotle
Murray Rothbard influencedBy Aristotle
Classical period hasMajorFigure Aristotle
Sophists criticizedBy Aristotle
Aristotelianism namedAfter Aristotle
Lyceum of Aristotle foundedBy Aristotle
Bernard Williams influencedBy Aristotle
Al-Farabi influencedBy Aristotle
Avicenna influencedBy Aristotle
Samuel ibn Tibbon influencedBy Aristotle
Gersonides influencedBy Aristotle
Carl Menger influencedBy Aristotle
Averroes influencedBy Aristotle
Al-Kindi influencedBy Aristotle
Monadology influencedBy Aristotle
Thales of Miletus influenced Aristotle
Jacques Maritain influencedBy Aristotle
Summa Theologiae influencedBy Aristotle
Ionian school influenced Aristotle
Mortimer Adler influencedBy Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics author Aristotle
Politics author Aristotle
Metaphysics author Aristotle
subject surface form: Metaphysics (Aristotle)
On the Soul author Aristotle
Prior Analytics author Aristotle
Posterior Analytics author Aristotle
On Interpretation author Aristotle
Rhetoric author Aristotle