Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who studied under Plato and founded his own school called the Lyceum. He was interested in science and used logic and reasoning to understand the natural world. Aristotle made major contributions to many fields including biology, where he classified animals into species and studied human anatomy. He established the foundations of scientific methodology and influenced Western philosophy and theology for centuries.

1. THE LIFE AND
AC H I E VEME NT S O F
ARISTOTLE
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2. WHO IS ARISTOTLE?
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•Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived in Macedonia, Greece.
•Around 350 BC, he went to study with Plato at his (Plato’s)
academy in Athens.
•He left the school after Plato’s death.
•Aristotle returned to Macedonia and tutored the son of a king,
who was later known as Alexander the Great.
•After Alexander became King, Aristotle founded Lyceum, his own
academy.
•Although he studied under Plato, Aristotle had different interests
from him; he was more interested in science and using logic to find
how the world worked.

3. ACHIEVEMENTS
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 Aristotle was particularly interested in biology. During his travels of
Western Asia, Alexander the Great sent messengers all over the land to bring
samples of unknown plants and animals to Aristotle for studying.
 He was the first person to study life at a scientific angle
 He was the first to classify animals by species, studied human anatomy,
astronomy, meteorology, and created the theory of living things possessing
souls.
 He created the standard for scientific research, with two types of
arguments: dialectical, which is logical deduction, and empirical, which is the
belief that knowledge can only be attained through experience.

4. RHETORIC
 Aristotle was the first person to accept rhetoric (the art of
speaking and writing effectively using persuasion) unlike Socrates
and Plato. There are three terms to become an effective writer:
 Ethos: ethical appeal, convincing people by means of the
author’s character (You tend to believe who you respect)
 Logos: persuasion by means of logic and reason/ for example,
scholarly documents and documents distributed by
companies/businesses.
 Pathos: appeal based on emotion, for example, advertisements.

8. WHY IS HE IMPORTANT?
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 He laid the groundwork for reason and established main principles of
scientific epistemology
 Greatly influenced Western theology and philosophy
 His works covered a wide variety of subjects such as ethics, logic, politics,
poetry, rhetoric, physics, and biology, which greatly influenced the scholars of
the Middle Ages and the Renaissance as well as the traditions of the Catholic
Church.

9. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/philosophy/aristotle.htm
 http://www.btvsonline.com/buffy-blog/would-aristotle-say-that-buffy-is-ethical/
 http://westerncultureglobal.org/knowledge-philosophy.html
 http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/why-aristotle-considered-one-greatest-minds-288263
 http://www.surfnetkids.com/go/95/about-the-significance-of-aristotle/
 http://www.gap-system.org/~history/PictDisplay/Aristotle.html
 http://www.btvsonline.com/buffy-blog/would-aristotle-say-that-buffy-is-ethical/
 http://www.listoid.com/list/38
 http://www.webquest.hawaii.edu/kahihi/sciencedictionary/D/dichotomous.php
 http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/AristotleBiol.htm
 http://blog.reconciliationecology.org/2008_01_01_archive.html
 http://schoolworkhelper.net/2011/02/aristotle-lyceum-teleology-virtue-ethics/
 http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group4/
 http://courses.durhamtech.edu/perkins/aris.html
 http://eserver.org/courses/f04/313/lessons/week2.html