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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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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Strabo influencedBy Aristotle
Galen influencedBy Aristotle
Marin Mersenne influencedBy Aristotle
Roger Bacon influencedBy Aristotle
Aristotele Fioravanti givenName Aristotle
this entity surface form: Aristotele
Werner Jaeger influencedBy Aristotle
Werner Jaeger mainInterest Aristotle
Hans-Georg Gadamer influencedBy Aristotle
Eudoxus of Cnidus influenced Aristotle
Ikhwan al-Safa influencedBy Aristotle
Giorgio Agamben influencedBy Aristotle
Big Aristotle inspiredBy Aristotle
William of Ockham influencedBy Aristotle
Heraclides Ponticus studentOf Aristotle
Franz Brentano influencedBy Aristotle
Leo Strauss influencedBy Aristotle
De legibus influencedBy Aristotle
Quintilian influencedBy Aristotle
Alasdair MacIntyre influencedBy Aristotle
Critias (the elder cousin of Charmides) describedBySource Aristotle
subject surface form: Critias
Book 8 philosopherDiscussed Aristotle
subject surface form: Book 8 (The City of God)
Michael Psellos influencedBy Aristotle
John Finnis influencedBy Aristotle
Porphyry influencedBy Aristotle
T. H. Green influencedBy Aristotle
Bar Hebraeus influencedBy Aristotle
Albert of Cologne influencedBy Aristotle
Ibn Tufayl influencedBy Aristotle
De anima influencedBy Aristotle
subject surface form: De anima (Suárez)
Telly Savalas givenName Aristotle
this entity surface form: Aristotelis
Aristotle's writings author Aristotle