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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Metic philosophers in Classical Athens, Aristotle, Democritus, Protagoras, Anaxagoras, Alexis, Hippodamus of Miletus, Gorgias, Polygnotus, Alcamenes, Prodicus, Crates of Thebes, Pythias, Xenocrates, Agoracritus, Aspasia, Diogenes of Sinope, Lysias, Diagoras of Melos, Aristippus, Euclid of Megara, Eudemus of Rhodes, Isaeus, Theodorus the Atheist, Diogenes of Apollonia, Archelaus, Ion of Chios, Diotima of Mantinea, Dinarchus, Sicinnus, Pasion, Melanippides, Zoilus, Kresilas, Timotheus of Miletus, Philoxenus of Cythera, Parrhasius, Pherecydes of Leros, Xenophilus, Choerilus of Samos, Epicrates of Ambracia, Hegemon of Thasos, Pratinas, Amphis, Archeanassa, Polemarchus, Antiphanes of Berge, Menelaus of Pelagonia, Stesimbrotos of Thasos, Demetrius of Amphipolis. Excerpt: Aristotle (Greek: , Aristotel s) (384 BC - 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics. In the zoological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Ari...
