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Greek · -384--322 · 31 quotes
Greek · -384–-322
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Aristotle was the Greek philosopher who, more than any other single thinker, established the categories through which the Western world has understood nature, logic, ethics, politics, and the arts for two and a half millennia. Born in Stagira in 384 BC, he studied under Plato at the Academy and later tutored the young Alexander of Macedon. His surviving works — roughly a third of what he wrote — cover biology, physics, metaphysics, rhetoric, poetics, and the Nicomachean Ethics, where he argues that the good life consists in the exercise of distinctively human capacities in accordance with virtue. His definition of friendship — a single soul dwelling in two bodies — and his observation that wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is slow-ripening fruit are among the most durable things said about human relationship in any culture.
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