Definition for Aristotle
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Aristotle (384 B.C.E. to 322 B.C.E.): Greek philosopher, scientist, and physician, born in Stagira, Macedonia. In 367 he went to Athens, where he was associated with Plato's Academy until Plato's death in 347 B.C.E. In 342 B.C.E. he was invited by Philip of Macedon to educate his son, Alexander. After Alexander’s death, Athenian resentment resulted in a charge of impiety being brought against Aristotle; unlike Socrates, whose resolve is shown in Plato’s Crito, Aristotle fled to Chalcis rather than, as he said, allow ‘Athens to sin twice against Philosophy.’ Aristotle's writings represented a large and varied output over virtually every field of knowledge: logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, rhetoric, poetry, biology, zoology, physics, and psychology. The bulk of the work that survives actually consists of unpublished material in the form of lecture.