Aristotle

Aristotle is considered a Greek philosopher, theorist, academic, and creator of an intellectual system that is implemented to this day; whose thinking has shaped all consequent systemization of knowledge. He was born in 384 BC in Stagira, a little town not far from Macedonia at the northern coast of the Aegean Sea. Aristotle's father was named Nicomachus and he was the doctor of Macedonia's king, Amyntas, just as his other family members were. Aristotle's family was considered to be doctors of the king's family for a lot of years. Due to this, Aristotle became involved and learned about natural phenomenon. His guardian named Proxenus was the one who raised him up in the childhood after his parents' death.

In the last years of his education with Plato Aristotle started to lecture for himself, particularly on the field of public speaking. After Plato's death in 347, the unrivaled talent of Aristotle would have selected him to succeed to the leadership of the Academy. However, his deviation from Plato's schooling, together with the fact that he was a foreigner and consequently could not possess property, was too enormous to make this achievable.

Throughout his time at the Lyceum Aristotle dialogued on a very significant subject he named the Four Causes. This was Aristotle's categorization of the types of causes that a natural philosopher should explore. The four causes are the constituent factor, the form or pattern, the immediate origin, and the end or purpose. In a sense, what is identified in the first cause is substance out of which a thing comes up to existence and which stays present in it. For example, it is bronze in the case of a statuette, or silver in the case of a spoon, in addition to the genus to which these substances relate. In the second cause, the shape and model are a cause, which means that the statement of the essence is a genus to which it relates. For example, in the case of the octave, are the proportion of two to one, and figure overall; and the element terms in a description are included in the wider class of a description.

In the third cause the source is of alteration or relaxation: the human being who advises an action, for example, is a cause of this action. For instance, the father is the cause of his child; and on the whole, what produces is the cause of what is altered. Finally, in the cause four (telos), for instance, health is the cause of a person's going for a walk. "For what reason," one would asks, "is he going for a walk?" "To have good health," we would respond, and when we state this we consider to have offered the cause of doing so. Aristotle methodically took pleasure in speaking on the cause four. He supposed that life essentially had some implication or reason. If for some reason a life had no point or eventual purpose, we could go on forever; every goal achieved but yet no means to an end.

After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the occupation of Athens by opposing forces, Aristotle was charged with irreverence. This happened because of Aristotle's friendly and close relations with Macedonia royal family. He then fled and went to Chalcis in Euboea for the reason that he did not wished the Athenians to place the same offense again against philosophy. The offense that he was mentioning was when they did the similar thing to Socrates. Nevertheless, he died just in a year after moving to Chalcis in the year 322 BC from stomach disease.

Aristotle's works were conserved by his learner, Theophrastus, the descendant of Aristotle as leader of the Lyceum. Aristotle's works generally are separated into three categories: well-liked writings, memorandum, and discourses. He worked on logic as well and entitled it the Organon. His philosophy was separated into four groups that included Logic, Theoretical, Practical, and Poetical Philosophy. Aristotle thought that every person's aim was joy, and it was up to a person to find his own task to accomplish which will lead to him attaining happiness.