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Aristotle:
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher that was born circa 384 B.C. in Stagira, Greece. It was a very little place on the northern part of Greece. Nicomachus, Aristotle's father was a doctor to King Amyas II of Macedonian. After the death of his father when he was a small boy, Aristotle still stayed under the influence of the Macedonian court. Proxenus of Atarneus, Aristotle's brother-in-law took him under is wing until he was old enough to fend for himself. At the age of seventeen, Proxenus sent Aristotle to Athens to get an education. He got put into Plato's Academy, also being a student of Socrates. In 338 B.C., he went home to tutor the son of King Phillip II, Alexander the Great! Aristotle opened a teaching place called Lyceum. Right after it opened, Pythias, his first wife, died. Later after that he married a woman named Herpyllis who borne him his children.
In 323 B.C. when Alexander the Great suddenly died, Aristotle was charged with impiety which means that he lacked grieve for his death for Alexander the Great. This was a serious crime because they viewed him as a god. Not wanting to go to jail, Aristotle, his wife and children fled from Athens to the island Euboea.
Aristotle's philosophy was mainly focused on logic. He wanted to show people a "universal process of reasoning that would allow man to learn every thing about reality". How he did that was by describing certain objects based on their qualities and actions. Through describing this object, men would discover more about the object from deduction and reasoning.
After having escaped from the charges he got back in Athens, Aristotle caught a disease that infected digestive organs and died in 322 B.C.
After this, his writings and work came out of use but was picked back up again in the first centuries.
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