![]() When he was just a boy of the age of 10, Aristotle's father died (which meant that Aristotle could not now follow in his father's profession of doctor) and his mother seems also to have died young, so he was taken under the care of a man named Proxenus. Aristotle's mother, Phaestis, came from Chalcis on the island of Euboea, and her family owned property there. ![]() His father, Nicomachus, was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon, and Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy. ![]() LifeĪristotle was born to an aristocratic family in Stageira on the Chalcidice Peninsula of Macedonia (a region of northern Greece) in 384 B.C. His own school of philosophy, known as Aristotelianism or the Peripatetic School, influenced almost all later philosophical thinking, particularly the Medieval movements such as Scholasticism, Averroism and Avicennism. He is one of the most important founding figures in Western Philosophy, and the first to create a comprehensive system of philosophy, encompassing Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, Metaphysics, Logic and science. (Roman copy of a lost bronze sculpture by Lysippos, 1st or 2nd Century)Īristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) was an important Greek philosopher from the Socratic (or Classical) period, mainly based in Athens. ![]()
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