Seeing Aristotle

323 B.C.

Aristotle, 384-322 B.C., was a Greek philosopher taught by Plato. He taught people about formal logic, the basic terms of reasoning. He taught science, the reasoning of why things are the way they are, like why leaves drop in the fall. He's one of the founders of biology. And dialect, the constructive and destructive dialect. While taught by Plato, Aristotle counters his argument that good is universal in all things.

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"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." -Aristotle

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He founded a school, Lyceum. With a new approach, he held classes outside for students to engage in plants and animals during classes. Aristotle having a close relationship with Alexander the 3rd, him and his students would research plants and animals from conquests. Even after Aristotle's death, classes were held here outdoors.

He challenges the works of government in his writing of the “Politics,” it was to investigate what government was. In other words, what made a good government and what made a bad one. He explains how each form of government aims at good but each also has its shortcomings. This writing calls into question how to create and follow out with a good form of government.