Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in 384 BC in Stageira, Greece. He was a student of Plato and later became the tutor of Alexander the Great. Aristotle wrote on many topics, encompassing logic, metaphysics, ethics, biology and zoology. He established his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens and conducted courses there for 12 years. Aristotle is considered one of the most influential ancient thinkers in Western philosophy and science. His works were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy and influenced many Islamic and European scholars for centuries.

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Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs)
(384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher,
a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander
the Great. His writings cover many subjects,
including physics, metaphysics, poetry,
theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics,
politics, government, ethics, biology, and
zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates
(Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most
important founding figures in Western
philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first
to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing
morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.
Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval
scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance,
although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics. In the
zoological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be
accurate only in the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known
formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century
into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound
influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and
Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence
Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic
Church. His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest
with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's
philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today.
Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero
described his literary style as "a river of gold"), it is thought that the
majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the
original works have survived.
Life
Aristotle was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about 55 km
(34 mi) east of modern-day Thessaloniki. His father Nicomachus was the
personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. Aristotle was trained
and educated as a member of the aristocracy. At about the age of
eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's
Academy. Aristotle remained at the academy for nearly twenty years
before quitting Athens in 348/47 BC. The traditional story about his
departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the

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academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon
his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian
sentiments and left before Plato had died. He then traveled with
Xenocrates to the court of his friend Hermias of Atarneus in Asia Minor.
While in Asia, Aristotle traveled with Theophrastus to the island of
Lesbos, where together they researched the botany and zoology of the
island. Aristotle married Hermias's adoptive daughter (or niece) Pythias.
She bore him a daughter, whom they named Pythias. Soon after Hermias'
death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor
to his son Alexander the Great in 343 BC.
Aristotle was appointed as the head of the royal academy of Macedon.
During that time he gave lessons not only to Alexander, but also to two
other future kings: Ptolemy and Cassander. In his Politics, Aristotle
states that only one thing could justify monarchy, and that was if the
virtue of the king and his family were greater than the virtue of the rest
of the citizens put together. Tactfully, he included the young prince and
his father in that category. Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward
eastern conquest, and his attitude towards Persia was unabashedly
ethnocentric. In one famous example, he counsels Alexander to be 'a
leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the
former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with
beasts or plants'.By 335 BC he had returned to Athens, establishing his
own school there known as the Lyceum. Aristotle conducted courses at
the school for the next twelve years. While in Athens, his wife Pythias
died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore
him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus. According to the
Suda, he also had an eromenos, Palaephatus of Abydus.
It is during this period in Athens from 335 to 323 BC when Aristotle is
believed to have composed many of his works. Aristotle wrote many
dialogues, only fragments of which survived. The works that have
survived are in treatise form and were not, for the most part, intended
for widespread publication, as they are generally thought to be lecture
aids for his students. His most important treatises include Physics,
Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, De Anima (On the Soul) and
Poetics. Aristotle not only studied almost every subject possible at the
time, but made significant contributions to most of them. In physical
science, Aristotle studied anatomy, astronomy, embryology, geography,
geology, meteorology, physics and zoology. In philosophy, he wrote on
aesthetics, ethics, government, metaphysics, politics, economics,
psychology, rhetoric and theology. He also studied education, foreign
customs, literature and poetry. His combined works constitute a virtual
encyclopedia of Greek knowledge. It has been suggested that Aristotle
was probably the last person to know everything there was to be known
in his own time.

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