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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al-Muallim al-Thani titleAfter Aristotle
Second Master hasRankAfter Aristotle
Second Master refersTo Aristotle
subject surface form: First Master
Second Master followsTraditionOf Aristotle
subject surface form: Al-Farabi
The Virtuous City influencedBy Aristotle
Kitab al-Huruf influencedBy Aristotle
Kitab al-Jam bayn Ra’yay al-Hakimayn mainSubject Aristotle
subject surface form: Kitab al-Jamʿ bayn Raʾyay al-Ḥakimayn
Kitab al-Jam bayn Ra’yay al-Hakimayn influencedBy Aristotle
subject surface form: Kitab al-Jamʿ bayn Raʾyay al-Ḥakimayn
Kitab al-Jam bayn Ra’yay al-Hakimayn twoSagesIdentifiedAs Aristotle
subject surface form: Kitab al-Jamʿ bayn Raʾyay al-Ḥakimayn
Second Teacher after Aristotle distinguishesFrom Aristotle
this entity surface form: First Teacher (Aristotle)
Suhrawardi influencedBy Aristotle
Kitab al-Najat influencedBy Aristotle
The Book of Healing is a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia influencedBy Aristotle
subject surface form: The Book of Healing
Ibn Bajjah influencedBy Aristotle
Demetrius of Phalerum studentOf Aristotle
Abu Ali influencedBy Aristotle
subject surface form: Avicenna
Ralbag influencedBy Aristotle
Levi ben Gershom influencedBy Aristotle
Scholastic logic influencedBy Aristotle
Latin Averroists mainInfluence Aristotle
Siger of Brabant influencedBy Aristotle
Anaxarchus contemporaryOf Aristotle
Axial Age associatedWithThinker Aristotle
Democrates Secundus by Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda influencedBy Aristotle
subject surface form: Democrates Secundus
Sforno influencedBy Aristotle
Book 7 featuresCharacter Aristotle
subject surface form: Book 7 (Confessio Amantis)
Book 7 teacherFigure Aristotle
subject surface form: Book 7 (Confessio Amantis)
Anthony Kenny mainInterest Aristotle
Anthony Kenny influencedBy Aristotle