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| Name: | Aristotle |
| Birth: | 384 BC |
| Death: | March 7, 322 BC |
| School/tradition: | Inspired the Peripatetic school and tradition of Aristotelianism |
| Main interests: | Politics, Metaphysics, Science, Logic, Ethics |
| Notable ideas: | The Golden mean, Reason, Logic, Biology, Passion |
| Influences: | Plato |
| Influenced: | Almost all of western philosophy and science afterward |
Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs) (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry (including theater), biology and zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, and ethics. Along with Socrates and Plato, Aristotle was one of the most influential of the ancient Greek philosophers. They transformed Presocratic Greek philosophy into the foundations of Western philosophy as we know it. Some consider Plato and Aristotle to have founded two of the most important schools of Ancient philosophy; others consider Aristotelianism as a development and concretization of Plato's insights.
Aristotle defines philosophy as "the knowledge of being."
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