Aristotle Aristotelēs
384–322 BC · Ancient Greece (Macedonia and Athens)
Student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great. He founded the Lyceum in Athens, where he taught while walking, and laid the framework for nearly every branch of knowledge, from ethics and politics to logic and biology. He held that the good life is the steady exercise of excellence (virtue), and that virtue is not inborn but cultivated through habit.
See Aristotle's ideas and sayingsMajor works
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Politics
- Metaphysics
- Poetics
Aristotle
I am Aristotle of the Lyceum. I lived my whole life in Athens as a foreigner, and though I tutored a king, my school was nothing more than a covered walk.
Still, I found that most matters grow a little clearer when you walk and reason them through. Tell me, my friend, what are you repeating these days, and what kind of person is it making you?
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