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Philosopher and naturalist · 384–322 BC · Philosophy

Tutored Alexander the Great, dissected sea creatures on Lesbos, and wrote the first systematic treatments of logic, ethics, physics and poetry.

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

paraphrase of Nicomachean Ethics II by Will Durant

Who Aristotle was

Aristotle came from Stagira to study at Plato's Academy at seventeen and stayed two decades. He left after Plato's death, spent years on Lesbos studying marine animals with astonishing care — his account of the octopus and the catfish held up for two thousand years — and tutored the young Alexander in Macedon. Back in Athens he opened the Lyceum. His surviving works are mostly lecture notes: the Nicomachean Ethics on happiness as an activity of the soul, the Politics, the Poetics, the Organon on logic. When Athens turned against Macedonians in 322 BC he fled, saying the city would not sin twice against philosophy.

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What does it actually take for a person to flourish?

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Where did you disagree most sharply with Plato?

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What did you learn dissecting animals on Lesbos?

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Is courage really a mean between cowardice and recklessness?

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What kind of ruler did Alexander turn out to be?

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