PHIL 160D2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Peripatetic School, Protoscience

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 160D2
• Professor: John Maloney

Document Summary

Aristotle: 384-322 bc: born in stagira in northern greece (ancient macedonia) At 18 y. a: aristotle arrives in athens and studies under plato at the. Academy, where he remains for about 20 yrs. Lea(cid:448)es athe(cid:374)s after plato"s death i(cid:374) (cid:1007)(cid:1008)7 bc a(cid:374)d spe(cid:374)ds several years in assos (n. w. coast of modern turkey) and then the coastal island of lesbos. In 343 bc summoned by king phillip of macedonia (who has unified much of greece, including athens, under his rule) to the ki(cid:374)g"s (cid:272)ourt to tutor his 1(cid:1007) (cid:455). a so(cid:374), ale(cid:454)a(cid:374)der. Returns to athens in 225 bc and establishes his own school at the lyceum (gymnasium, with covered walkways; he(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:862)peripateti(cid:272)s(cid:863) = walkers) Alexander dies in 323 bc, when aristotle flees athens and dies the next year. Ra(cid:374)ge of aristotle"s work: virtually all areas of philosophy, metaphysics (note the term, epistemology, ethics & aesthetics & political theory, logic, protoscience: physics, biology, astronomy. Plato versus aristotle: the general structure of universe.