Aristotle

Robert HooverA-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.

Theories

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