Birthdate: 384 BC
Nationality: Greek
Bio:
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in 384 BC in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece. He was a student of Plato and later taught Alexander the Great. Considered one of the most influential philosophers of all time, Aristotle played a seminal role in pioneering the development of scientific thinking and helped lay the foundations for many disciplines, including biology, physics, psychology, logic, and ethics.
He wrote many works on various subjects including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, and zoology. Some of his most influential writings include the Nicomachean Ethics, where he analyzed concepts like ethics and virtue, as well as Poetics, the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory. His work on logic, now known as Aristotelian logic, was influential for over two millennia and remains important to this day in both ancient and modern philosophy.
As one of the earliest and most important thinkers in many fields, Aristotle’s ideas have had an enormous influence on nearly all subsequent Western philosophy, science, language, and other domains. His works represent a significant attempt to develop systematic theories across diverse scientific fields and provide a framework for understanding many complex topics.
