![]() ![]() Most of the things Aristotle wrote that we still have today are notes from his speaking and teaching. These thoughts became roots of the scientific method after hundreds of years. ![]() He thought that knowledge from the senses was more important. The world is only a copy of these "Forms" and is not perfect.Īristotle thought differently. Only the soul can have knowledge of "Forms", the real way things are. True knowledge can be got from the thinking soul that turns away from the world. Plato's main ideas were that knowledge from the senses was always confused and not pure. These three thinkers turned early Greek philosophy into the beginnings of Western philosophy as it is today. Socrates taught Plato, then Plato taught Aristotle. The three greatest ancient Greek philosophers were Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates. ![]() He died in Euboea of natural causes that same year, 322 BC. When Alexander died, Athenians started to dislike Macedonians again and Aristotle left the city. The king executed Aristotle's grandnephew Callisthenes as a traitor. Aristotle often said that he disliked Alexander calling himself a god. He threatened Aristotle in letters he wrote to him. ![]() Near the end of Alexander's life, he began to think people might be trying to kill him. Some people think Aristotle was probably the last person to know everything there was to know about in his own time. All of Aristotle's works are like an encyclopedia of everything the Greeks knew. The works that have survived are probably lecture notes for his students. It was probably then (335 to 323 B.C.) that Aristotle wrote most of his works. Aristotle taught courses at the school for twelve years. p58īy 335 BC Aristotle returned to Athens. One time, he advised 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'. He encouraged Alexander to conquer Persia, which was an empire to the east. During that time, he not only taught Alexander he also taught two other future kings: Ptolemy and Cassander.Īristotle believed Greek culture was better than all of the other cultures. Aristotle was put in charge of the royal academy of Macedon. Philip II of Macedon invited Aristotle to tutor his son Alexander the Great. They looked at the botany and zoology of the island. While in Asia, Aristotle traveled with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos. He then traveled with Xenocrates to Asia Minor. Aristotle stayed at the academy until he was 27. He was a soldier for King Amyntas of Macedonia.Īt about the age of eighteen, Aristotle went to Athens to become a student of Plato at Plato's Academy. Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great when Alexander was a child.Īristotle's father was named Nicomachus. Aristotle wrote many books, and some of those books survive. He was one of the most important philosophers in the history of Western civilization. His theory states atoms cannot be destroyed, differ in shape, size or temperature.Aristotle: marble copy of bronze bust by Lysippus, Louvre Museum.Īristotle (Stagira, Macedonia, 384 BC – Chalicis, Euboea, Greece, 7 March 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher.States that everything is made up of atoms ĭemocritus thought atoms are small quantities of matter.The scientific theory of nature of matter Knowledge is based on the visible world Democritus: Theory of Knowledge.Thought and perception are created through the change of the body.Thought and sensation are influenced by images impacting the outside of the body. Therefore whales are warm blooded Aristotle: Syllogism.Syllogism is a pattern, which helped him discover rules by combining and transforming them.Syllogism was a categorical logic (form of logic that involves identifying rules of which categories of things can be put together to produce valid deductions.) Aristotle and Democritus:The Atomic Theory By: Sam Berman and Emilee Williams ![]()
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