Aristotle 384324 BC

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Aristotle 384-324 BC
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Aristotle

• Born in Stageira, Chalcidice in 384 BC
• Father was personal physician to King Amyntas of
  Macedon.
• Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of
  the aristocracy.
• At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens
  to continue his education at Plato's Academy.

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The Academy founded 385 BC
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Plato and Aristotle
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Plato 427-347 BC

• Student of Socrates
• Member of the Aristocracy
• Left Athens after the death of Socrates in 399.
• Saw dialectic as the only way to attain truth
• Disliked rhetoric in that its object was not
  truth but persuasion

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The Academy Let no one who cannot think
geometrically enter!

• An academy of Critical thinking
• Mathematics
• Dialectics
• Astronomy
• Philosohy

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Aristotle after the death of Plato 347 BC

• Aristotle rejected as new director of the Academy
• Travelled to Asia Minor, married
• Became the tutor of Alexander the Great in
  Macedonia
• Returned to Athens
• 335 founded his own school the Lykeion

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The Lykeion 335-323 BC

• Taught and wrote books on virtually any academic
  subject. Renowned for his
• Scientific method Logic/reasoning
• Induction example
• Deduction syllogism

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Subjects

• Practical science ethics and politics
• Poetical sciencepoetry and other fine arts
• Theoretical sciencephysics, mathematics and
  metaphysics

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Books (lectures)

• Physics
• Metaphysics
• Nicomachean Ethics
• Politics
• De Anima (On the Soul)
• Poetics Basic textbooks to this day
• Rhetoric

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The Death of Alexander 323 BC

• Anti Macedonian sentiment flared up
• Aristotle was accused of not holding the gods in
  honor.
• Fled to Chalcis "I will not allow the Athenians
  to sin twice against philosophy."
• Died in Euboia of natural causes in 323.
• Theophrastus succeeded him as director