His most important treatises include Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, De Anima (On the Soul) and Poetics. As he learnt, he made significant contributions in the form of treatise to those disciplines. He had amazing passion for learning and possessed marvellous knowledge on multi discipline. He had left a will later that same year, in which he asked to be buried next to his wife.Īristotle composed most of his works between 335 and 323 BC, while he was in Athens. In 322 BC, the political issues made Aristotle flee to his mother’s family estate in Chalcis. Following Alexander’s death, anti-Macedonian sentiment in Athens was rekindled. Towards the end of Aristotle’s life, there was a break between him and Alexander. Aristotle conducted courses at the school for the next twelve years. By 335 BC, Artistotle had returned to Athens, establishing his own school there known as the Lyceum. Aristotle was appointed as the head of the royal academy of Macedon. Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander in 343 BC. Aristotle’s teacher was Plato, and Aristotle was the teacher of Alexander the Great. Aristotle moved to Plato’s Academy while he was 18. His father Nicomachus was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE) was a philosopher and polymath from Greece.
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