Aristotle Story
ARISTOTLE
ARISTOTLE
Aristotle
Description
Born: 384 BC, Stagira, Greece
Died: 322 BC, Chalcis, Greece
Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. at Stagirus, a Greek colony and seaport on the coast of Thrace. His father Nicomachus was court physician to king Amyntas of Macedonia and from this began Aristotle's long association with the Macedonia Court, which considerably influenced of his life. While he was still a boy his father died.
At the age of 17, his guardian, Proxenus, sent him to Athens the intellectual center of the world, to complete his education. he joined the Academy and study under Plato, attending his lectures for a period of twenty years . In the later years of his association with Plato and the Academy he began to lecture on his own account, especially on the subject of rhetoric. At the death of Plato in 347 B.C., the pre-eminent ability of Aristotle would seem to have desginated him to succeed to the leadership of the Academy. But his divergence from Plato's teaching too great to make this possible, and Plato's nephew Speusippus was chosen instead.
At the invitation of his friend Hermes, ruler of Atarneus and Assos in Mysia, Aristotle left for his court. He stayed there for three years and married Pythias, the of the king. In later life, he was married a second time to women named Herpyllis, who bore him a son Nichomachus. At the end of three years Hermes was overtaken by the Persians, and Aristotle went to Mytilene. At the invitation of Philip of Macedonia he became the tutor of his 13 years old son Alexander (later world conqueror); he did this for next five years . Both Philip and Alexander appear to have paid Aristotle high honour, and there were stories that Aristotle was supplied by the Macedonia court, not only with funds for teaching, but also with thousands of slaves to collect specimens for his studies in natural science. These stories are probably false and certainly exaggerated.
Upon the death of Philip, Alexander succeeded to the kingship and prepared of his subsequent conquest. Aristotle's work being finished, he returned to Athens, which he had not visited since the death of Plato. He found the Platonic school flourishing under Xenocrates, and Platonism the dominant philosophy of Athens. He thus set up hos own school at a place called the Lyceum. when teaching at the Lyceum, Aristotle had a habit of walking about as he discoursed. it was in connection with this that his followers become known in the later years as the peripatetics, meaning "to walk about".
For the next thirteen years he devoted his energies to his teaching and composing his philosophical treatises. He is said to have given two kinds of lectures; the more detailed discussion in the morning for an inner circle of advanced students, and the popular discourses in the evening for the general body of lovers of knowledge. At the sudden death of Alexander in 323 B.C., the pro-Macedonian government in Athens was over thrown, and a general reaction occurred against anything Macedonian. A charge of impiety was trumped up against him. To escape prosecution he fled to Chalcis in Euboea so that (Aristotle says) "The Athenians might not have another opportunity of sinning against philosophy as they had already done in the person of Socrates." In the first years of his residence at Chalcis he complained of a stomach illness and died in 322 B.C.
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