Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)

Start Date: Oct 16, 2019

Finish Date: Jul 8, 2021

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     Aristotle is one of the most famous and influential philosophers and naturalists in history.

     A student of Plato, and later tutor to Alexander the Great. Aristotle was an empiricist focused on the A Posteriori routes to knowledge, that is, we gain knowledge by looking at the world and understanding it.

     Famously Aristotle worked out that an eclipse was caused by the moon moving between the Earth and the Sun or by the Earth itself moving in front of the Sun, and a shadow is cast across our field of vision. Therefore, the Earth must be spherical.

 

Aristotle / Quotes

 

     We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

 

     It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

 

     The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

 

     Man is by nature a political animal.

 

     Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

 

     The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

 

     Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

 

     What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

 

     Happiness depends upon ourselves.

 

     Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.