aristotle

1. Aristotle (384 BCE – 322 BCE)
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in
Ancient Greece. He is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, who made important
contributions to logic, criticism, rhetoric, physics, biology, psychology, mathematics,
metaphysics, ethics, and politics. He was also the Father of Physics and Astronomy, and
the Communication Model. He was a student of Plato for twenty years but is famous for
rejecting Plato’s theory of forms.
FACTS ABOUT ARISTOTLE
1. Aristotle was an orphaned at a young age.
Both of Aristotle’s parents died when he was about thirteen, and Proxenus of
Atarneus became his guardian.
2. He is the founder of Zoology.
After the death of Plato and Hermias, he travelled around the world. He had new
ideas on how to study the world. He used to make detailed observations of the
world and recorded what he saw. In his quest to learn more about the anatomy of
animals he started dissecting them, which was a new practice. Greek philosophers
and educators of those times used to do all their work in their mind, thinking about
the world without observing it.
3. He was a tutor to royalty.
In 343 BC, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his
son Alexander the Great. He took much advice from his teacher. Aristotle also
taught Ptolemy and Cassander, who were both eventually crowned kings.
4. Aristotle's life of romance.
Aristotle married Pythias and had a daughter whom he also named Pythias, after
her mother. After the unfortunate passing of his first wife, Aristotle fell in love with
Herpyllis. Herpyllis was the former slave of Pythias. His new wife went on to bear
him a son who he named Nicomachus.
5. Aristotle contributed to the classification of animals.
Aristotle was the first person to venture into the classification of different animals.
He used characteristics that are common among certain animals to categorize
them into comparable groups.
6. His contributions to physics.
While Aristotle was the founder of new frontiers in the field of life sciences, his
ventures into physics fell short by comparison. His studies in physics seem to have
been highly influenced by pre-established ideas of modern and earlier Greek
thinkers. For example, in his dissertations on Generation and Corruption and On
the Heavens. He embraced Empedocles’ view on the make-up of the universe that
everything was created from different compositions of the four fundamental
elements: earth, water, air, and fire.

2. In the same way, Aristotle supposed that any kind of change meant something was
in motion. He defined the motion of anything as the actuality of a potentiality.
Aristotle’s interpretation would be simply the study of nature.