The two great figures of ancient Greek philosophy were Plato and Aristotle.Aristotle was the son of a physician and a student in Plato's Academy for 20 years. He spent the years afterward in political exile and during this time was absorbed in biological work.
He became a tutor to Alexander the Great and also founded his own school that he called the Lyceum.
Aristotle died in 322 B.C. at the age of 62.
One fifth of his work survives today and is so abundant that it fills 12 volumes.
In his work Aristotle touched on a great and diverse range of knowledge bur unfortunately many of his works have been lost.
All that remains for the study of Aristotle's thought are his lecture notes.
Unlike Plato, Aristotle's work displays no great literary skills but the work is of tremendous quality and Aristotle's conclusions have influenced thought until the present day.
Aristotle covered a broad range of areas including science, biology, and scientific explanations of the events of nature, the philosophy of nature, metaphysics, the issue of the nature of substance, identity, continuity as well as ethics and political theory.
