He was son of a doctor in Macedonian court, when he assisted to Athens academy he was disciple from Plato for 20 years until he decided to separate form Plato’s teachings saying that he was a friend of Plato but he was more friend of the truth that’s when he created his own philosophy, Aristotle was realist he believed that the concepts and ideas are present in the world, and that based on the existence of individuals and objects, our mind creates the concepts, which show our capacity of thinking on the diversity of the world, ideas are fictitious, there only exist individuals.
In 344 Filipe of Macedonia calls him and names him preceptor from his son Alexander the great,; with Alexander’s help he created the lyceum where he dedicated to the study of physics, biology, ethics, politics, etc. Then he created a big library and a zoo with money from the court.
Aristotle said that the man was a rational and politic, we are rational because we are capable to think and reflect about our actions and surprise about them, and this is considered to be the basis of philosophy, to be surprise of things and then ask ourselves about it, but we are politic because we have to live in civilizations or cities, nobody is able to live alone we have to share a language and our life with somebody else.
Aristotle also created the first classification of science; productive science, which consists on beautiful and useful objects; practical science which where mainly ethics and politics and the theory science which were about knowledge that then turned into metaphysics.
He believed in the empirical knowledge of nature, which comes from observing and from life experiences, Aristotle is known as one of the first Scientifics he used to prove his theories based on observation and making experiments. He also said that change was really important, it was the process of being a potential to an act, for example the seed of a tree is in potential a tree, because even though it will become a tree with time or like chairs, you can have an old one, a new one, some color chairs, and in every shape but they will still be chairs.
Aristotle also created a new are of study, the ethics, everything starts on customs and personality of the individuals, and in conclusion everything is an instrument to find or achieve our goals but beyond that everyone is searching happiness. In few words ethics is the study of human action in a pursuit of happiness, and freedom but we have to develop virtues, which give us the strength to avoid weakness. We have to practice them and always pay attention to those who we considered excellent in their virtues and make from ourselves virtuous individuals.
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