Internet classics archive aristotle biography

Aristotle was born in Stagiros, Macedon, in 384BCE.

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His father was a court physician to King Amyntas of Macedon, but died when Aristotle was young. At that time, medicine was a secret craft passed down from father to son, so his father's early death drastically changed the course of Aristotle's life.

He was brought up and educated by a guardian, who sent him at the age of seventeen to the centre of intellectual and artistic life, Athens. There he entered Plato's Academy (Plato was away in Syracuse at the time), where he stayed for about twenty years, first as student then as teacher.

When Plato died, the story becomes a little obscure.

Internet classics archive aristotle biography

Aristotle left Athens, but it's not clear exactly why. It might have been because he was passed over as head of the Academy, or because of his philosophical differences with the new head, Speusippus, or because of his Macedonian antecedents.

Macedon was unpopular at that time, because the new king, Philip, was rapidly expanding the borders of his ki