Aristotle
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
FACTS
- Aristotle was an Ancient Greek philosopher
- born circa 384 B.C. in Stagira, Greece
- Aristotle died in 322 B.C.
- Spent most of his life studying, teaching and writing
- He tutored in Alexander the great
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FIELD OF STUDY
Aristotle was not technically a scientist by today’s definitions, science was among the subjects that he researched at length during his time at the Lyceum.Aristotle was a philosopher. It was said he was mainly in the field of mathematics. He was also a physician and trained in medicine.
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR TIME
His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late nineteenth century into modern formal logic. Aristotle is said to have written 150 philosophical treatises. The 30 that survive touch on a huge range of philosophical problems, from biology and physics to morals to aesthetics to politics.
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RELATIONSHIP STATUS
In the same year that Aristotle opened the Lyceum, his wife Pythias died. Soon after, Aristotle embarked on a romance with a woman named Herpyllis, who hailed from his hometown of Stagira. According to some historians, Herpyllis may have been Aristotle’s slave, granted to him by the Macedonia court. They presume that he eventually freed and married her. Regardless, it is known that Herpyllis bore Aristotle children, including one son named Nicomachus, after Aristotle’s father.
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People who influenced him
Plato, Socrates, Democritus, Hippocrates, Epicurus, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaximander, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea
People who he influenced
Western philosophy, Christian philosophy and pre-Enlightenment science; also much Islamic and Jewish philosophy
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FUN FACTS
- He was goog friends with Alexander the Great
- Aristotle remains one of the most influential people who ever lived.
- His polymaths most favorite subject was science
- Many of his writings were lost and only one third survived to this day.
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