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The Philosopher, Aristotle

                         Joe Rinzel

     The ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle was an amazing individual who
possessed a multitude of talents ranging from mastery of  rhetoric to interest
in physiology.  Aristotle lived during the fourth century B.C. in ancient Greece.
The culture of the Greeks during this time differs greatly from our present day
life and times.  Aristotle came into contact with many great men of history,
from Plato his instructor and mentor to Alexander the Great, conquerer and ruler
of the east.  The works of Aristotle have left many after him to contemplate his
theories and attitudes toward life and his Realism movement.
     The time in which Aristotle lived was one where to be heard one had to
possess a loud voice and master the art of persuasion, or rhetoric. This was the
case throughout Greece, specifically in Athens, where Aristotle spent the major
part of his life.  The law in Athens came from a group of about five thousand
men who were the land holders in the city.  In this group an individual must be
heard in order to defend himself and others in need.  This was accomplished by
those trained in rhetoric.  Therefore those who taught this art stood to obtain
a lot of wealth from their endeavors.  These were known as sophists with whom
much contempt was held by such philosophers as Socrates.  "The greatest school
of Rhetoric in all Greece was at this period held in Athens by the renowned
Isocrates, who was at the zenith of his reputation."(Collins p. 11) A competitor
with this school was Plato's Academy of philosophy which is where Aristotle
arrived at in the year 367 B.C..  Plato became Aristotle's teacher and soon
realized the massive potential and sheer intellect that Aristotle possessed.
     Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. in a town just outside the borders of the
Macedonian Empire, called Stageira.  He was rumored to have been raised in the
customs of the Asclepiad. "It was the custom in Asclepiad families for the boys
to be trained by their father in the practice of dissection just as regularly as
boys in other families learn to read and write."(Collins p. 3) When Aristotle
turned seventeen his father, Nicomachus died and he was put under the care of
Proxenus of Atarneus, who sent him to Athens to further his education under the
tutorship of the great philosopher, Plato.
      It was at Plato's Academy that Aristotle was realized for his potential
and was able to grow in knowledge and understanding of philosophy.  It was not
long before Aristotle became known as "the Mind of the School" and he stayed
there for about twenty years.  During this time Aristotle became well known and
respected as a writer and orator.  His philosophy however grew to differ greatly
from that of his mentor's, as well as against  those of the previously mentioned,
Isocrates.    In fact his orations "during his earlier residence at Athens show
him somewhat petulantly attacking both Plato and Isocrates."(Collins p.   His
arguments against his teacher's philosophies were centered on the Platonic
theory of Forms.  Aristotle started the Realism movement which objected to the
idea that the material world is unimportant and a shadow of existence.  He
disagreed with the belief that the true reality existed through universal ideas,
truths, and forms.  He had no room in his views for imagination and what he saw
as guesses at truths.  When Plato died in 347 B.C., Aristotle was thought to be
the natural person to take over his work.  Plato's nephew, Speusippus, however
was nam...

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