Biography of Aristotle

Forging the future

Year of birth: 384 Bc 322 Bc March 7 Born in Stagira in 384 BC, son of a doctor in the service of King Amyntas of Macedonia, at the age of eighteen, Aristotle, he moved to Athens to study at the Platonic Academy, where he remained for twenty years, first as a pupil of Plato and later as a teacher. In 347 BC, after the death of Plato, Aristotle goes to Atarneus, a city ruled by the tyrant Hermia, schoolboy of the Academy and his friend; later she moved to ACE, where he founded a school and remains for about three years, and in Mytilene, the island of Lesbos, to teach and carry out research in natural sciences. After the death of Hermias, captured and killed by the Persians in 345 BC, Aristotle went to Pella, the Macedonian capital, where he became the tutor to the young son of Philip, the future Alexander the great. In 335, when Alexander is appointed King, Aristotle returned to Athens and founded his school, the high school, so called because the building was located near the Temple of Apollo Licio. Because, according to tradition, most of the lessons in the school was while teachers and students strolled in the garden of the Lyceum, Aristotle's school ends up being nicknamed "Perípato" (from the Greek peripatéin, "walking" or "wander"). In 323 BC, after Alexander's death, Athens spreads a profound hostility to Macedonia, and Aristotle considers prudent to retire to a family estate in chalcis, where he died the following year, on 7 March of the year 322 b.c. In the Western philosophical tradition of Aristotle's writings are transmitted primarily through the work of Alexander of Aphrodisias, Porphyry and Boethius. During the ninth century a.d., some Arab scholars spread the works of Aristotle in the Islamic world in Arab translation; Averroes is the best known among scholars and tori Arabs of Aristotle. In the 13th century, just starting with these translations, the Latin West reiterates its interest in the writings of Aristotle and Saint Thomas Aquinas finds in them a philosophical foundation for Christian thought. The influence of Aristotelian philosophy was huge and very important; He even helped to shape the language and common sense of modernity. His doctrine of the unmoved mover as final cause has had a key role in any system of thought based on a teleological conception of natural phenomena and for centuries the term "logic" was synonymous with "logic". One can say that Aristotle has contributed significantly to form fragments scattered in the disciplines of systematic and methodologically ordered them into the secrets which the West intends. In the 20th century has a new reinterpretation of the Aristotelian method as the rediscovery of his relevance for cosmology, pedagogy, literary criticism and theory of politics.
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