PSYC 4008 : Test 2 Psyc 4008
Document Summary
Came from a very wealthy, educated background with every benefit. When he was 17 his father died and his education of masedon ended. Socrates was dead for 30 years at this point. So there was a formal system of training available to him. He came under the influence on plato when we went to athens and went to the academy. Aristotle lefts athens and traveled for 20 years. He visited many places that looked different from where he was raised. Mostly in the south eastern part of the. He began to become independent mentally from plato. Got married to the daughter of a king. He began to develop a collection of things from the physical world that interested him. Was invited to return of masedon and tutor the son of the king, alexander the great (356-323 bc). While on military campaigns he sent back animals to aristotle. Aristotle founded another school that was a competitor of the academy.
