Aristotle Played a Crucial Role in the Formation of the Modern World

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Aristotle

Our world is very complicated and full of different miracles, phenomenas, enigmas. This unwittingly made people to think about nature, about their environment, about things surrounding them, about people around and relations with them, literally about everything. Humans’ minds are created in such way that understanding of the meaning of life, the nature of things, phenomenon of nature and life is quite necessary for existence and living.

During the world history some people were pretty successful in understanding and analyzing our world, these are different philosophers, thinkers, scientists from the beginning of the world and up to now. All of them were very important for development and formation of our modern world. Certainly, some of them were more significant, some of them less.

In my opinion one of the most important philosophers of world history is Aristotle. We can say for sure that his approach definitely played crucial role in formation of modern world, we live in. His range of interests was really wide, therefore Aristotle happened to be the first thinker to create a comprehensive system of philosophy, to cover all areas of human development: sociology, philosophy, politics, logic and physics.

Aristotle was born in Stagirus, an ancient Greek city on the Chalkidiki peninsula, in 384 BCE. His father, Nicomachus was personal doctor of King Amyntas of Macedon. In 369 BCE at the age of fifteen Aristotle left without parents. After Aristotle’s father died, Proxenus of Atarneus, became Aristotle’s guardian until he came of age.

At the age of 18, in 367 BCE Aristotle went to Athens in order to continue his education at Plato Academy. So, Aristotle was Plato’s student until Plato’s death in 347 BCE.

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All of the definitions above are appropriate for Aristotle’s theories in all areas of his interest.

Aristotle is one of the most important figures in world history. The Ancient Greece has given us a lot of great people, but among them Aristotle, in my opinion, is the most influential and significant for development of philosophy and politics.

His approach shaped present political science, and every student of political science or philosophy department all over the world has to study Aristotle’s theories at first in order to understand further developments and ideologies.

Every year Forbes magazine publishes the rating of ‘100 the most influential people in the world’. If I would create my own rating but ‘100 the most influential and important people in the world history Aristotle definitely would be in that list.

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