Aristotle
 Marble bust of Aristotle. Roman copy after a Greek bronze original by Lysippus c. 330 BC. The alabaster mantle is modern. | Born |
384 BC Stagira, Chalcidice |
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Died |
322 BC (aged 61 or 62) Euboea |
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Nationality |
Greek |
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Era |
Ancient philosophy |
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Region |
Western philosophy |
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School |
Peripatetic school Aristotelianism |
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Main interests |
Physics, Metaphysics, Poetry, Theatre, Music, Rhetoric, Politics, Government, Ethics, Biology, Zoology |
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Notable ideas |
Golden mean, Aristotelian logic, syllogism, hexis, hylomorphism, Aristotle's theory of soul |
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Influenced |
Virtually all Western philosophy that came after his works; Alexander the Great, Cicero, Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, and most of Islamic philosophy, Jewish philosophy, Christian philosophy, science and more....
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Aristotle
 Marble bust of Aristotle. Roman copy after a Greek bronze original by Lysippus c. 330 BC. The alabaster mantle is modern. | Born |
384 BC Stagira, Chalcidice |
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Died |
322 BC (aged 61 or 62) Euboea |
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Nationality |
Greek |
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Era |
Ancient philosophy |
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Region |
Western philosophy |
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School |
Peripatetic school Aristotelianism |
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Main interests |
Physics, Metaphysics, Poetry, Theatre, Music, Rhetoric, Politics, Government, Ethics, Biology, Zoology |
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Notable ideas |
Golden mean, Aristotelian logic, syllogism, hexis, hylomorphism, Aristotle's theory of soul |
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Influenced |
Virtually all Western philosophy that came after his works; Alexander the Great, Cicero, Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, and most of Islamic philosophy, Jewish philosophy, Christian philosophy, science and more....
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