ARISTOTLE 1

ARISTOTLE

I. Aristotle’s biography:

-    (384 - 322 BC); student of Plato; left Athens in 347,

-    at the invitation of Philip¹¹ of Macedonia - tutor of Alexander the Great,

returned to Athens; established his own school at the Lyceum; peripatetics,

investigations of a wide rangę of subjects: logie, philosophy, ethics, physics, biology, psychology, politics, and rhetoric.

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"®rAristotle’s works:

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Physics: explains change, motion, void, time,

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Metaphysics: reconciliation between Plato’s theory of forms and the view of the worla influenced by observation of the naturai Sciences; hylomorphismp oio^'

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Politics: origin of the state, its composition, best States, citizens, On the Soul: the nattfre^f living tffirigs, kinds of souls possessed

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all kinds of poetry involve mimesis (Imitation or representation),

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