Things in heaven and earth. Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367?347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil in Asia Minor. After some time at Mitylene, in 343?342 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip?s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of ?Peripatetics?), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander?s death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows: I...
Visa mer
Recensioner
Bli först med att recensera denna bok
