The Philosophy of Aristotle

More than two thousand years ago Aristotle established unique standards of philosophic inquiry observation and judgment. This book offers a contemporary reevaluation of the philosophy of the master of Western thought and shows his vital continuing influence in our modern world. <b>Aristotle</b> was born at Stageira in the dominion of the kings of Macedonia in 384 BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens in the Academy of Plato on whose death in 347 he left and some time later became tutor of the young Alexander the Great. When Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedonia in 335 Aristotle returned to Athens and established his school and research institute the Lyceum to which his great erudition attracted a large number of scholars. After Alexander's death in 323 anti-Macedonian feeling drove Aristotle out of Athens and he fled to Chalcis in Euboea where he died in 322. His writings which were of extraordinary range profoundly affected the whole course of ancient and medieval philosophy and they are still eagerly studied and debated by philosophers today. Very many of them have survived and among the most famous are the <b>Ethics</b> and the <b>Politics</b>. More than two thousand years ago Aristotle established unique standards of philosophic inquiry observation and judgment. This book offers a contemporary reevaluation of the philosophy of the master of Western thought and shows his vital continuing influence in our modern world.