Aristotle's Legacy

Aristotle, a philosopher who has changed modern ways of thinking radically by his many writings as well as many as two hundred treatises which of only 31 survive today.

Aristotle was a philosopher whose writings have influenced the curriculum of modern day schools all across the world. Aristotle’s legacy has carried on throughout his works for centuries.

Aristotle was born in 384 BCE in Stagira. His father died when aristotle was only ten. Aristotle went to live with his uncle, and was sent to Plato’s Academy, where he then studied for twenty years.

Aristotle was a philosopher who has changed the world in many ways. His writings and treatises have influenced the modern philosophy even after thousands of years.

Aristotle was born in Stagira,

The Lyceum was a “school of learning based in Athens, Greece.

Aristotle taught at his school for the next portion of his life. He came to develop a name for himself.

As Aristotle taught, he became know as “Peripatetics, meaning to walk about.”(www.iep.utm.edu)

For the next “thirteen years [Aristotle] devoted his energies to his teaching and composing his philosophical treatises.(www.iep.utm.edu)

As Aristotle is remembered as one of the great philosophers along with socrates and his former teacher Plato, Aristotle wrote many treatises, or philosophical papers.

Aristotle wrote many different articles as well as many famous treatises.

Aristotle wrote “over 200 treatises, which of only 31 still remain today.”(The Story of Philosophy.58)

Aristotle’s works are “quoted more than any other philosopher.” (Rudd.1)

Dante Alighieri accredited Aristotle to many different important aspects of philosophy.

In Dante’s Convivio, Aristotle is “referred to more than 50 times.”(Rudd.1)

Dante calls Aristotle “[the] authority on the nature of the soul.”(Rudd.1)

Some historians doubt that Aristotle could have written all of his philosophical pieces by