Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who believed in knowledge gained from the senses. He set the stage for what would develop into the scientific method of philosophy, and his ethical views remain relevant and influential to this day.

1. The logical works of Aristotle were compiled into six books in the early 1st century AD
2. Studied and wrote on physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology.

Aristotle, Socrates and Plato are the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle was the first to create a comprehensive system of philosophy. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences shaped medieval scholarship, His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of academic study today.

• 384 BC: Born at Stagira

• 367 BC: Aristotle's father dies. Aristotle is sent to Plato's Academy in Athens

• 347 BC: Death of Plato

• 347 BC: Marries Pythias, niece and adopted daughter of Hermias

• 344 BC: Hermias is murdered

• 343 BC: Aristotle is summoned to Macedon to become the tutor of Alexander the Great

• 335 BC: Aristotle returns to Athens and opens a school of philosophy, known as Lyceum

• 323 BC: Aristotle is charged with impiety and leaves Athens for his country home at Chalcis, [in Euboea

• 322 BC: Death of Aristotle

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