Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Student of Plato for twenty years
Tutored Alexander the Great at the Macedonian court (342-339 BC)
Opened a school in the Athenian Lyceum (335 BC)
Politics & Economics - 1496 1st edition of Latin printing
Ethics - 1496 1st edition of Latin printing
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Further Resources:
General introduction to Aristotle from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
General introduction to Aristotle from The School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews
Wikipedia article on AristotleList of works by Aristotle with links to full text from M.I.T.
Aristotelian Metaphysics by S. Marc Cohen at the University of WashingtonAristotle's Rhetoric with searchable text, prepared by Lee Honeycutt
Quotations attributed to Aristotle from Quotation Reference
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