Many of our works and how they came into being originates way back to before Alexander the Great was born. In 384 B.C. a philosopher was born to the western world that would change the way we think. This philosopher’s name was Aristotle. Aristotle was renowned for his logical way of preserving life.
Aristotle was born in 384 to Phaestis and Nicomachus in Stagira, Thrace. Phaestis, his mother, was an aristocratic descent while his father, Nicomachus, was a physician. When Aristotle was 17 years old, he traveled to Athens, Greece to join Plato’s school called, the Academy. He studied there for 20 years until Plato’s death in 347 B.C… Years passed and Aristotle was selected to tutor a man named, Alexander the Great of Macedon. Because Alexander
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Some of his works include: The Athenian Constitution (Written 350 B.C.E), Categories (Written 350 B.C.E), On Dreams (Written 350 B.C.E), On the Gait of Animals (Written 350 B.C.E), On Generation and Corruption (Written 350 B.C.E), On the Heavens (Written 350 B.C.E), The History of Animals (Written 350 B.C.E), On Interpretation (Written 350 B.C.E), On Longevity and Shortness of Life (Written 350 B.C.E), On Memory and Reminiscence (Written 350 B.C.E), Metaphysics (Written 350 B.C.E), Meteorology (Written 350 B.C.E), On the Motion of Animals (Written 350 B.C.E), Nicomachean Ethics (Written 350 B.C.E), On the Parts of Animals (Written 350 B.C.E), Physics (Written 350 B.C.E), Poetics (Written 350 B.C.E), Politics (Written 350 B.C.E), Posterior Analytics (Written 350 B.C.E), Prior Analytics (Written 350 B.C.E), On Prophesying by Dreams (Written 350 B.C.E), Rhetoric (Written 350 B.C.E), On Sense and the Sensible (Written 350 B.C.E), On Sleep and Sleeplessness (Written 350 B.C.E), On Sophistical Refutations (Written 350 B.C.E), On the Soul (Written 350 B.C.E), Topics (Written 350 B.C.E), Virtues and Vices (Written Unknown B.C.E), and finally On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death, On Breathing (Written 350