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Aristotle!

BACK IN TIME 2,000 YEARS… ANCIENT GREECE!. Aristotle!. A towering figure in ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle made contributions to many aspects of our modern world but, also made a decision that caused the study of the invisible world to stand still for 2,000 years…. Personal Background.

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Aristotle!

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  1. BACK IN TIME 2,000 YEARS… ANCIENT GREECE! Aristotle! A towering figure in ancient Greek Philosophy, Aristotle made contributions to many aspects of our modern world but, also made a decision that caused the study of the invisible world to stand still for 2,000 years…

  2. Personal Background Stagira! BCE 384 FAST FORWARD 17 YEARS TO BCE 367!!! • Born:384 BCE • He was born in a minor town named Stagirus (later Stagira), in the Greek colonial region called Chalcidice. • His father, Nicomachus, was the physician of AmyntasIII, king of Macedonia.

  3. BCE 367 He is now 17 Years Old! • His family was most likely well off as he could travel frequently and devote his time to study. • His father, Nacomachus, dies. • Shortly after, he was sent to Athens to Pluto’s philosophical school called the Academy. Fast Forward 20 Years to BCE 347! …

  4. BCE 347 Adult Life • He spent 20 years in the Academy under the great philosopher Pluto. • When Pluto died, the Academy was looking for a successor and Aristotle seemed the likely choice. When he was passed over, he left the Academy in frustration. • Around BCE 343, he left for Macedon to be the tutor of the young Prince Alexander, who would grow up to be Alexander the Great. • In BCE 335, he returned to Athenswhere he founded a new scholarly community, the Lyceum. The Lyceum became one of the greatest centers for advanced study in the ancient world. He taught and wrote there. • When Alexander the Great died in BCE 323, anti-Macedonian citizens became violent and with Aristotle’s close ties to the royal family, he had to flee north. • After 62 years of intellectual greatness, Aristotle died in BCE 322 in Chalcis, Euboea.

  5. Summary of Research • Considered one of the founding fathers of Western philosophy. • He wrote on many topics, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. • He laid the foundation for reasoning. He defined a method of acquiring knowledge. • Created the first system of logic - known as Aristotelian syllogistic • Separated science from philosophy. • One of the first among others to study biology and zoology. His works in zoology were stunningly accurate and were used for many centuries after his death. He grouped together animals with similar characteristics and divided them into two groups: those with blood and those without blood. • Only 1/5 of Aristotle’s works survived, but even these fill 12 volumes and touch on almost all of the available knowledge of his time.

  6. Contributions (More likeObstructions) to the Atom • Aristotle rejected the atomic “theory” proposed by Democritus that said that matter was made of tiny individual particles called atomos. These particles could not be created, destroyed, or divided and retain their properties even at its smallest part. • He rejected this theory because it didn’t correspond with his own ideas. • Aristotle believed in the four elements of air, water, fire, an earth. He then said that each of these four elements were a combination of two of the four, “opposites”: cold, hot, wet, and dry. Any of the four elements are capable of changing into either of the two elements they share a property with. For example, water, which he said was cold and wet, transformed into air which was hot and wet. Both air and water share the property of wet. • He believed that regardless of the number of times you cut a form of matter in half, you would always have a smaller piece of that matter. • Unfortunately, the people, and most importantly the government, favored Aristotle's ideas since he was one of the most influential and well-known philosophers of his time. Democritus’ proposal was forgotten and Aristotle’s ideas went unchallenged for almost 2,000 years.

  7. Overall Impact • Generally speaking, Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers of all time and is considered one of the founding fathers of Western Philosophy. He made many contributions to our modern world and was a major influence in the viewing of a variety of topics including physics, metaphysics, logic, biology, zoology, and politics. • If you look at his impact on the atom, he was devastating and halted the study for over 2,000 years. By rejecting Democritus’ atomic “theory”, the idea of the atom was forgotten until around the 1750’s. If Democritus’ theory” wasn’t rejected and further studied at his time, who knows how much more advance we would be in the study.

  8. Credits • Aristotle. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 2:08, October 16, 2011, from http://www.history.com/topics/aristotle. • Sacks, D., & Brody, L. R. (n.d.). Aristotle. Retrieved October 16, 2011, from Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, Revised Edition website:      http://www.fofweb.com/NuHistory/default.asp?ItemID=WE49&NewItemID=True • Waggoner, B. (1996, June 10). Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.). Retrieved October 16,      2011, from Universiy of California website: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/      history/aristotle.html • Fowler, M. (2008, September 3). Aristotle. Retrieved October 16, 2011, from      University of Virginia website: http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/classes/      109N/lectures/aristot2.html

  9. Picture Credit • Slide: 1 • http://gakuranman.com/aristotles-moral-philosophy/ - 10/13/11 • http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0073-aristotle.php - 10/13/11 • http://www1.union.edu/wareht/gkcultur/guide/18/aristotle.html - 10/13/11 • Slide: 2 • http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/greece.htm - 10/15/11

  10. Picture Credits cont. • Slide:3 • http://www.mathpath.org/mission.htm - 10/16/11 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Plato%27s_Academy.jpg – 10/16/11 • http://ronmwangaguhunga.blogspot.com/2010/06/platos-musical-code-links-between.html - 10/16/11 • Slide: 4 • http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Alexander.htm - 10/16/11 • http://thetrainingfactory.com.au/news-certificate-iv-in-workplace-training/mentors-aristotle-and-alexander-the-great/ - 10/16/11

  11. Picture Credit cont. • Slide: 5 • http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-40849345/stock-photo-aristotle-statue-located-at-stageira-of-greece-birthplace-of-the-philosopher.html - 10/16/11 • http://philosophy.gemzies.com/show/entry_19808/Aristotle_Statue_Picture.html - 10/16/11 • Slide: 6 • http://www.nndb.com/people/790/000087529/ - 10/16/11 • http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211_fall2004.web.dir/Danny_Dominick/Aristotle%20Page%202.html – 10/16/11

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