{"id":17517,"date":"2020-12-28T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=17517"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:10:31","slug":"sylum-inspiration-aristotle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-aristotle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Inspiration: Aristotle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aristotle<\/a>, whose name means \u201cthe best purpose\u201d, was born in 384 BC in Stagira, Chalcidice, about 55 km (34 miles) east of modern-day Thessaloniki. His father Nicomachus was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. Although there is little information on Aristotle\u2019s childhood, he probably spent some time within the Macedonian palace, making his first connections with the Macedonian monarchy.<\/p>\n

At about the age of eighteen, Aristotle moved to Athens to continue his education at Plato\u2019s Academy. He remained there for nearly twenty years before leaving Athens in 348\/47 BC. The traditional story about his departure records that he was disappointed with the Academy\u2019s direction after control passed to Plato\u2019s nephew Speusippus, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.<\/p>\n

Aristotle then accompanied Xenocrates to the court of his friend Hermias of Atarneus in Asia Minor. There, he traveled with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos, where together they researched the botany and zoology of the island. Aristotle married Pythias, either Hermias\u2019s adoptive daughter or niece. She bore him a daughter, whom they also named Pythias. Soon after Hermias\u2019 death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander in 343 BC.<\/p>\n

Aristotle was appointed as the head of the royal academy of Macedon. During that time he gave lessons not only to Alexander, but also to two other future kings: Ptolemy and Cassander. Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest and his attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric. In one famous example, he counsels Alexander to be \u201ca leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants\u201d.<\/p>\n

By 335 BC, Artistotle had returned to Athens, establishing his own school there known as the Lyceum. Aristotle conducted courses at the school for the next twelve years. While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stagira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus. According to the Suda, he also had an eromenos, Palaephatus of Abydus.<\/p>\n

This period in Athens, between 335 and 323 BC, is when Aristotle is believed to have composed many of his works. He wrote many dialogues of which only fragments have survived. Those works that have survived are in treatise form and were not, for the most part, intended for widespread publication; they are generally thought to be lecture aids for his students. His most important treatises include Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, De Anima (On the Soul) and Poetics.<\/p>\n

Aristotle not only studied almost every subject possible at the time, but made significant contributions to most of them. In physical science, Aristotle studied anatomy, astronomy, embryology, geography, geology, meteorology, physics and zoology. In philosophy, he wrote on aesthetics, ethics, government, metaphysics, politics, economics, psychology, rhetoric and theology. He also studied education, foreign customs, literature and poetry. His combined works constitute a virtual encyclopedia of Greek knowledge.<\/p>\n

Near the end of his life, Alexander and Aristotle became estranged over Alexander\u2019s relationship with Persia and Persians. A widespread tradition in antiquity suspected Aristotle of playing a role in Alexander\u2019s death, but there is little evidence.<\/p>\n

Following Alexander\u2019s death, anti-Macedonian sentiment in Athens was rekindled. In 322 BC, Eurymedon the Hierophant denounced Aristotle for not holding the gods in honor, prompting him to flee to his mother\u2019s family estate in Chalcis, explaining: \u201cI will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy\u201d \u2013 a reference to Athens\u2019s prior trial and execution of Socrates.<\/p>\n

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Aristotle was ready to leave this earth, when he was visited by an old friend. When he saw Alexander he first thought he had already gone to the afterlife. It took a few moments for Alexander to convince him he wasn\u2019t insane or dead. When he was told about Vampires, Aristotle knew this is what his life had led up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Aristotle, whose name means \u201cthe best purpose\u201d, was born in 384 BC in Stagira, Chalcidice, about 55 km (34 miles) east of modern-day Thessaloniki. His father Nicomachus was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. 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