Aristotle
Aristotle was perhaps the first and greatest of all polymaths, being credited with the founding of logic. He is said to have transformed every field of logic that he touched (apart from mathematics where Plato and Platonic thought remained supreme). He divided human knowledge into separate categories, which enabled our understanding of the world to develop in systematics fashion. Resulting in the modern world of science. Aristotelian thought has given rise to many philosophical questions that lead many modern day philosophers to wonder how dangerous the flaws are in our way of thinking as well as what the flaws are preventing us from learning. Aristotle was born in 383 B.C. at ancient Stagira in Greek Macedonia. It was here that he lived with his father, Nicomachus, the personal physician to the King of Macedonia and the grandfather of Alexander the Great. Aristotle's father was a rich man, owning many estates throughout Greece. Aristotle was brought up in an atmosphere of medical learning, until his father died. After his father died, Aristotle was taken to Atarneus where he was brought up by his cousin. It was here that he blew the entire inheritance left to him by his father. He then returned to Stagira where he studi
After his death, his will portrays him as an essentially prosaic, decent man, his character utterly unwarped by being the vehicle of supreme genius. No doubt Aristotle was just that. He broadened the thought process of mankind to such an extent, that philosophers are still puzzled over his logic. He was indeed one of the finest minds the earth had ever seen. Aristotle's most significant achievement was in the field of logic. Logic, as Aristotle came to see it, is the foundation on which all learning is based. Plato understood that knowledge could be discovered by dialect, Aristotle formalized this idea with his discovery of syllogism. Syllogism showed that "when certain things are stated, it can be shown that some other thing other than what is stated necessarily follows". By age forty-two Aristotle was known as the leading intellectual throughout Greece. Aristotle, in his late years, was forced to flee Athens in fear of facing the death penalty. This was on account of Alexander the Great's death which aroused the resentment of the Athenians for being under Macedonian rule. Since Aristotle was born in Macedonia, he was arraigned on a charge of impiety. To prevent Athens from " sinning twice against philosophy", he fled to Chalkis where he would soon die. Aristotle had a natural inclination toward the practical and the scientific, which led him to view Plato's ideas from an increasingly realistic standpoint. Shifting away from Plato's view that the particul
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