POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Intellectual Virtue, Habituation
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Aristotle 384 322: plato + aristotle. Personal connection between aristotle and plato: plato taught. Aristotle was the best students at plato"s academy. He was not a athenian citizen, he was born in stagira (northern. At the age of 17 he was sent to athens to attend plato"s academy he was there for 20 years (affiliated with the academy) Plato dies in 347 and that"s when aristotle left the academy and. He then travels all over greece, he makes lots of connections and gets married. Then he returns to athens and phillip is in control. He then opens up his own academy and teaches there for 12 years. Phillip summons aristotle to come to court to step a little school for the royal families. Then he goes back and starts the lyceum. Aristotle was going to be brought up to court for teaching, he basically went into exile.