Aristotle

A student of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, Aristotle shared his teacher's reverence for human knowledge but revised many of Plato's ideas by emphasizing methods rooted in observation and experience. Aristotle surveyed and systematized nearly all the extant branches of knowledge and provided the first ordered accounts of biology, psychology, physics, and literary theory. In addition, Aristotle invented the field known as formal logic, pioneered zoology, and addressed virtually every major philosophical problem known during his time. Known to medieval intellectuals simply as "the Philosopher", Aristotle is possibly the greatest thinker in Western history, and, historically, had perhaps the single greatest influence on Western intellectual development.

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Chemistry; Essence (philosophy); Political Science; Republic; Aristotle; Democracy; Greek City-State; Philosophy, Western; Philosophy, Greek

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