Aristotle
384 BCE – 322 BCE Greek philosopher, teacher
Greek philosopher who founded the Lyceum and treated education as the training of habit and reason.
- Religion
- Ancient Greek polytheism.
- Affiliations
- Founded the Lyceum in Athens; tutor to Alexander the Great.
Aristotle studied at Plato's Academy before founding his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens around 335 BC. He argued that education should cultivate virtue through habit and develop reason, and he made the study of nature and logic central to learning. His works on ethics and politics discuss the purposes of public education at length.
Connections
- influenced Averroes — His commentaries carried Aristotle back into European thought.
- mentor of Plato — Aristotle studied at Plato's Academy for about twenty years.
- mentor of Plato — He studied under Plato, then broke with the theory of forms.
- student of Plato — Aristotle studied at his Academy for twenty years.
- student of Plato — Trained at the Academy under Plato.
- influenced Thomas Aquinas — Aquinas fused Aristotle with Christian theology.
- influenced Thomas Aquinas — He built his theology on Aristotle's philosophy.
In the timeline
- 351 BCE Aristotle's physics, four elements, and Earth at the center central figure
- 350 BCE Aristotle's Politics classifies forms of rule central figure
- 335 BCE Aristotle founds the Lyceum central figure
- 330 BCE Aristotle theorizes the origin of money central figure