Biography of Aristotle

Stage (384-367 v. Chr)Aristotle was born in 384 BC in Stagira, in Halkidiki, a peninsula of Greece / Macedonia, the son of a renowned physician in the court of King Amyntas. However, his parents die unexpectedly early, so it is leaving at the age of 17 years at the Academy of Plato in Stagira to Athens to begin a study of philosophy.Athens (367-347 v. Chr)He is only there as a student and later as a teacher for 20 years. Only after the death of 347 BC Plato left Athens, where there may be two reasons: First, there is now a fairly widespread anti-Macedonian sentiment, and the other not, as expected, the direction of the Academy of Plato, Aristotle, but his nephew Speusippus much less talent. Aristotle and Plato did not like particularly. Emergence of Plato hated Aristotle, and their understanding of the philosophy of science as a whole is fundamentally different from what Aristotle thought.Assos (347-345 v. Chr)Aristotle moved to Assos disappointed in Asia Minor, where he finds his old friend at court, where the reigning king Hermias quickly into place. In urging Hermias, who eventually married his niece and adopted daughter, Pythias. Two years later by the Persians is Hermias was captured and killed, what Aristotle and his wife traveled to Pella, the capital of Macedonia.Pella (345-335 v. Chr)He works there as long as 10 years to Philip II as an educator and a master's heir Alexander. It instructs him in among other things, mathematics, philosophy and art. 335 BC When Alexander finally ascends to the throne later as "Alexander" in history to enter the Stagirite ultimately returns to Athens with a strong desire to put your travel days to reach its end.Athens (335-323 v. Chr)In Athens, he founded his own school of philosophy called "Lyceum" (later Peripatus), is still almost 300 years. Its surprising name "peripatetic" (education of migrants) is due to the peculiarity that the philosophical doctrine less rich in solid areas, but much more will take place on school grounds during a walk in the conversation between teacher and student. The library, which creates Aristotle, is of inestimable value to posterity. It also contains, among other things, some 160 constitutions of Athenian polis. These give an idea of ​​the political structure and political mentality of the old society.Euboea (323-322 v. Chr)After Alexander's death (323 BC), Aristotle left Athens again, as it reduces the anti-Macedonian feeling more and almost accused of blasphemy. The escape of the execution of potential (a fate that befell Socrates also) takes but little. A year later, in the hometown of his mother (his estate in Chalcis, Euboea) to the eternal peace (Cause of death: disease of the stomach) and is located next to Plato and Socrates in the range of philosophers famous in antiquity.