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Arystotelesa

Arystotelesa, commonly known in English as Aristotle, was an ancient Greek philosopher whose ideas shaped Western thought for centuries. He was born in 384 BCE in Stagira and died in 322 BCE in Euboea. A student of Plato, Arystotelesa later founded and taught at the Lyceum in Athens, where he developed a systematized body of knowledge spanning multiple disciplines.

His work is often divided into three broad areas: logic, natural philosophy, and normative science (ethics and

In ethics, Arystotelesa sought the good life for human beings, arguing that virtue lies in the mean

Arystotelesa’s influence extended through the Hellenistic world and medieval Islam and Christianity, where his writings were

politics).
In
logic,
he
developed
the
syllogistic,
a
formal
method
for
deductive
reasoning
later
collected
in
the
Organon.
In
natural
philosophy,
he
studied
biology,
physics,
and
cosmology,
proposing
teleological
explanations
and
the
doctrine
of
four
causes:
material,
formal,
efficient,
and
final.
He
argued
that
substances
are
composites
of
form
and
matter
and
that
potentiality
and
actuality
describe
change
and
being.
between
extremes
and
that
eudaimonia,
or
flourishing,
is
the
highest
human
good.
In
politics,
he
analyzed
constitutions
and
the
role
of
the
citizen
within
the
polis.
His
works
on
rhetoric,
poetics,
and
aesthetics
discuss
persuasion,
tragedy,
and
artistic
imitation.
preserved,
commented
upon,
and
integrated
with
religious
doctrine.
Modern
science
has
revised
many
of
his
theories,
but
his
method
of
systematic
inquiry
and
his
emphasis
on
empirical
observation
and
classification
remain
influential
in
philosophy
and
the
sciences.