WIBCI we really knew HISTORIC FIGURES?
In WIBCI #90 I quoted a description of an individual and told you I would reveal them in this post.
Aristotle was the greatest of all polymaths, said to have transformed every field of knowledge that he touched, was the founder of Logic, his system of thought resulted in the modern world of science, and according to Paul Strathern, ‘his originality remains unparalleled in the history of philosophy.’
This unparalleled genius was, born in 384bce he was the student of Plato, who was the student of Socrates and are thought of as the most important triumvirate in philosophy. He was Alexander the Great’s tutor and founded the Lyceum, (a rival school to Plato’s Academy that Aristotle opened years after Plato’s death when Aristotle was NOT appointed head of the Academy). 142 years later, when the Academy closed, this is considered by many as the end of Hellenistic thought.
Unbelievably such an important human somehow seems to have been a great guy with a sense of humor. His will famously begins with the humorous words: ‘All will be well, but in case anything should happen… In Paul Strathern’s Aristotle in 90 minutes, he sums him up as follows: ‘In this we are fortunate, for Aristotle seems to have been a good man. He saw the goal of humanity as the pursuit of happiness, which he defined as the actualization of the best we are capable of…In Aristotle’s view, reason is man’s highest faculty. Therefore “the best (and happiest) man spends as much of his time as possible in the purest activity of reason, which is theorizing.’
Last Updated on 11/09/2025 by Death of Hypatia Inc.
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