The Great Contributions Of Aristotle: The Life Of Alexander The Great

Aristotle was a great Greek philosopher that was born 384 B.C.E. on the Macedonian peninsula in Norther Greece and died 322 B.C.E. in Chalcis, Euboea. He was the apprentice of Plato and the mentor to Alexander the Great. He is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of all time just like his mentor and his mentor before him. Aristotle had many great accomplishments through his life such as building the lyceum and writing many great books like The Organon, The Metaphysics, and Nicomachean Ethics.

In the early life of Aristotle in Ancient Macedonia, he lived with his father Nicomachus who was a physician to Amyntas II who was the King of Macedonia and the Grandfather to Alexander the Great. Aristotles father died around 367 B.C.E and not long after is when he traveled to Athens to attend the Academy, Plato’s school and the first modern university. The Academy, and Athens itself, was regarded as the academic center of the universe where scholars traveled for a

Based on his writings, Aristotle is considered to be a metaphysicalist. Aristotle wrote a great number of papers about logic such as Categories, the De interpretatione, and the Prior Analytics. Aristotle claimed to be the founder of logic based on his writings from these books. Aristotle also believed that happiness is the ultimate purpose of human life. Aristotle defined moral virtue as “a disposition to behave in the right manner and as a mean between extremes of deficiency and excess, which are vices. We learn moral virtue primarily through habit and practice rather than through reasoning and instruction.” Aristotle also believed in many scientific phenomena as well. Such phenomena as the earth being the center of the universe. The list for Aristotle’s beliefs and views could span on for over a million words, but we will not discuss all of those