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Aristotle. Robert Hoover A-4 4/29/13. Background. Student of Plato and teacher of Alexander The Great. He was a Greek philosopher. Born 384 B.C. Died 322 B.C.
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Aristotle Robert Hoover A-4 4/29/13
Background • Student of Plato and teacher of Alexander The Great. • He was a Greek philosopher. • Born 384 B.C. • Died 322 B.C. • He Influenced physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.
Major Works • His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic. • Aristotle's views on the physical sciences shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics. • Aristotle started his own school in Athens, called the Lyceum. • Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues, it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.
Bibliography • http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/aristotle.htm • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle • http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/ • http://www.biography.com/people/aristotle-9188415 • http://www2.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/poetics.html
