Person384 BC – 322 BC

Aristotle

Pupil of Plato and tutor of Alexander who founded the Lyceum and systematised logic, ethics, politics and natural science

Born at Stagira, the son of a physician to the Macedonian court, he studied for nearly twenty years at Plato’s Academy. At the request of Philip II of Macedon he tutored the young Alexander. In 335 BC he founded the Lyceum in Athens, where he taught while walking, so his school was called the Peripatetic. Starting from observation of real things rather than the Forms, he systematised logic, ethics, politics, poetics and biology, and his learning, passed on through the Islamic world, shaped the scholasticism of medieval Europe.

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399 BC – 322 BCThe Death of Socrates and Greek Philosophyauthor
In 399 BC an Athenian court sentenced Socrates to death for corrupting the young. His disciple Plato and Plato’s pupil Aristotle built the framework of Western philosophy.

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Socrates470 BC – 399 BC
Athenian philosopher who sought universal truth by questioning others into recognising their ignorance, and was executed for corrupting the young
Plato427 BC – 347 BC
Disciple of Socrates who founded the Academy in Athens and wrote dialogues such as the Republic, setting out the theory of Forms and rule by philosopher-kings

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Greece and Rome2000 BC – AD 476
From the Aegean civilisation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire — the classical civilisation built by the democracy of the polis and the Roman republic and empire