POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - General Idea, Misogyny, Wrinkle
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Aristotle was born in macedonia, not athens, the outer regions. His father was a physician for the royal family. Aristotle was sent to athens to learn from plato. He leaves and enjoys the patronage by various rich families. He is invited by phillip, father of alexander to become the tutor of alexander. We have no immediate direct historical accounts that alexander and aristotle spent hours and hours for studying. Athenians did not like being under the control of the macedonians. When alexander dies there is this sort of feeling in athens that they are going to liberate themselves from the control of macedonian. Aristotle was not going to give the athenians the opportunity to sin twice against philosophers. The concept of citizenship is central to aristotle but he was never a citizen of athens. When things got tough he felt unsafe due to his political affiliations or where he was born.
