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Aristotle is a Greek philosopher scientist and educator how lived from 384 to 322 BC He was considered to be one of the greatest and most influential philosophers in Western culture He was born in northern Greece on the Macedonia coast in a small town called Stagira Aristotle came from an upper middle class were his father Nichomachus was a court physician to King Amanitas II of Macedonia This is where Aristotle became associated with the Macedonian court which influenced him greatly When Aristotle was still a boy both his parents died He was then raised by his legal guardian Proxenous till he was seventeen At that age Aristotle left to Athens the intellectual city of Greece At the age eighteen he entered Platos Academy Aristotle was recognized by Plato as being the brightest and most learned student out of anyone he ever taught There for Plato called him Intelligence of the school and the Reader He studied at the academy for twenty years until Platos death After Platos death Aristotle left the academy and joined some of Platos followers He lived with Hermeias who became ruler of two towns Atarneus and Assos in Mysia Aristotle stayed with him for about three years While there he married Pythias the adopted daughter of HermeiasAt the invitation of Philip the second king of Macedonia he became the tutor of Alexander He studied under Aristotle for about six years till Alexanders dad died and Alexander took over as ruler of Macedonia Alexander is now know as Alexander the Great since he conquered all of Greece and overthrew the Persian In 334 BC Aristotle went back to Athens and started a school called Lyceum At his school Aristotle was called Peripatetic which means walking around because Aristotle walked with his students while teaching When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC Aristotle was in trouble with the Athenians because he taught Alexander the Great the one who
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