Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322), Greek scholar. Aristotle was the most famous pupil of Plato in Athens, and like Plato he was a philosopher.

He spent his life trying to understand the world around him.

After Plato died, Aristotle left Athens, and King Philip of Macedon asked him to teach his thirteen year old son, Alexander.

Later Aristotle went back to Athens and started his own school. Aristotle was a doctor and a scientist and he wrote about every branch of human knowledge known in his time.

He invented a way of thinking out problems step by step. No one was able to improve this for 2,000 years.

In the Middle Ages philosophers still based their ideas about nature and human life on Aristotle's teaching.

See Benjamin Farrington Aristotle