ARISTOTLE:
WRITTEN BY: MUSHARRAF-UL-HASSNAINDATED ON: 06/06/2014
ARISTOTLE:
(384 B.C.E---322 B.C.E):
PLACE OF BORN:
Born in stagirus(stagira) in northern Greece.
FATHER OCCUPATION:
His father was the personal physician of the king Macedonia.
ARISTOTLE CHILDHOOD LIFE:
Because his father died when aristotle was young ,Aristotle could not follow the custom of the following his father's profession. Aristotle become an orphan at he young age when his mother also died. His guardian who raised him taught him poetry,rhetoric,and Greek.
ARISTOTLE LIFE:
At the age of 17 years,his guardian sent him to Athens to further education .Aristotle joined Plato's ACademy where for 20 years he attended Platos's lectures,later presenting his own lectures on rhehotic.When plato died in 347 B.C.E .Aristotle was not chosen to succeed him because his differed too much from that plato.
Instead ,Aristotle joined the court of Hermas where he remained for three years ,and married the niece of the king .When the persian defeated Hermas,Aristotle moved to Mytilene and ,at the invitation of the king philip of MACEDONIA,he tutored ,philip son,who later become Alexender the great,Aritotle tutored Alexender for five years and after the death of king philip ,he returned to Athens and set up his own school called LYCEUM.
ARITOTLE'S followers were called peripatetics ,which means "to walk about " because Arsritotle often walked around as the discussed philosophical questions .Aristotle taught at the lyceum for 13 years where lectured to his advanced students in the morning and gave popular lectures to broad audience in the evening .When Alexender the great died in 323 B.C.E.. a backlash against anything related to Alexander led to trumped up charges of impiety against Aristotle.Aristotle fled to Chalcis to avoid prosecution .He only lived one years in Chalsis ,dying of the stomach ailment in 322 B.C.E.
ARITOTLE BOOKS:
Aristotle wrote three types of books:those written for the popular audeince ,compilations of scientific facts ,and systematic treatises. The treatises included works on logic ,philosphy,psychology,physics,and natural history. Aristotle writings were preserved by the student and were hidden in the vault where a wealthy book collector discovered them about 200 years later.They taken to Rome ,Where they where studied by the scholars and issued in the new editions preserving them for posterity.
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