Aristotles
Aristotles may refer to more than one person named Aristotle, or to the Latinized form Aristoteles used in historical texts for the philosopher Aristotle. The most prominent bearer is Aristotle (384–322 BCE), a Greek philosopher whose work spans logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and natural philosophy. A student of Plato at the Academy in Athens, he founded the Lyceum and developed an empirical approach that emphasized observation and systematic classification. His logic, including the syllogism, became the foundational framework for deductive reasoning in the medieval and early modern periods.
In metaphysics, Aristotle proposed a theory of form and matter and articulated explanations of change through
The name Aristotle derives from the Greek Aristoteles, meaning roughly “the best purpose” or “the best end.”