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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subject surface form: Elizabeth Anscombe
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polis of Athens notableCitizen Aristotle
H. W. B. Joseph mainInterest Aristotle
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Truth isDiscussedBy Aristotle
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Edith Stein influencedBy Aristotle
vitalism associatedWith Aristotle
Athenians notablePhilosophers Aristotle
Essay on Poetry influencedBy Aristotle
Nous studiedBy Aristotle
Allan Bloom influencedBy Aristotle
John Philoponus influencedBy Aristotle
Eudemus of Rhodes studentOf Aristotle
Eudemus of Rhodes influencedBy Aristotle
Francesco Patrizi influencedBy Aristotle
St. Bonaventure influencedBy Aristotle
Moral Luck influencedBy Aristotle
Jonathan Lear influencedBy Aristotle
Nicolai Hartmann influencedBy Aristotle
Second Teacher hasRankAfter Aristotle