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
成し遂げたこと
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.
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6. WHY I S HE I M PORTANT?
なぜアリストテレスは重要ですか？
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.
