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Aristotle

Aristotle is one of the "big three" in ancient Greek philosophy, along with Plato and Socrates. (Socrates taught Plato, who in turn instructed Aristotle.) Aristotle is known for his carefully…

Brewer's: Aristotle

Aristotle of China. Tehuhe, who died A.D. 1200, called the “Prince of Science.” Aristotle of the nineteenth century. Baron Cuvier, the great naturalist (1769–1832). Source: Dictionary of…

Aristotle

(Encyclopedia) AristotleAristotleărˌĭstŏtˈəl, 384–322 b.c., Greek philosopher, b. Stagira. He is sometimes called the Stagirite. After the decline of Rome, Aristotle's work was lost in the West.…

The Celtic Twilight: Aristotle of the Books

by W. B. Yeats Miraculous CreaturesThe Swine of the GodsAristotle of the Books The friend who can get the wood-cutter to talk more readily than he will to anybody else went lately to see…

Peripatetics

(Encyclopedia) PeripateticsPeripateticspĕrˌəpətĕtˈĭks [key] [Gr.,=walking about; from Aristotle's manner in teaching], the followers of Aristotle. Theophrastus, friend of Aristotle and cofounder with…

Lyceum, gymnasium near ancient Athens

(Encyclopedia) LyceumLyceumlīsēˈəm [key], gymnasium near ancient Athens. There Aristotle taught; hence the extension of the term lyceum to Aristotle's school of philosophers, the Peripatetics.

Constitution of Athens

(Encyclopedia) Constitution of Athens, treatise by Aristotle or a member of his school, written in the late 4th cent. b.c. It was lost until discovered on Egyptian papyrus in 1890. It is a history of…

Alexander of Aphrodisias

(Encyclopedia) Alexander of AphrodisiasAlexander of Aphrodisiasăfrōdĭshˈēəs [key], fl. a.d. 200, Greek Peripatetic philosopher. A celebrated ancient commentator on Aristotle, he was often called the…

logic

(Encyclopedia) logic, the systematic study of valid inference. A distinction is drawn between logical validity and truth. Validity merely refers to formal properties of the process of inference. Thus…

Callisthenes

(Encyclopedia) CallisthenesCallistheneskəlĭsˈthənēz [key], c.360–c.327 b.c., Greek historian of Olynthus; nephew of Aristotle. He accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia as the historian of the…