To understand which secrets of Metaphysics Alexander considered as assets to his greatness, we first need to look back at his education in Metaphysics and indeed in the beginnings themselves of the development of Metaphysics by the philosopher Aristotle. Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was a student of Plato, and Plato had studied under Socrates. Between the three of them was laid much of the groundwork for western philosophy.
A brief summary for Aristotle was that he was born in 384 B.C. in Stagira, Greece. He enrolled at the Plato Academy at age 17. In 338 B.C., he began tutoring Alexander the Great and then in 335 B.C., Aristotle founded his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens, where he spent most of the rest of his life studying, teaching and writing. When Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., Aristotle left Athens and fled to Chalcis where he died in 322 B.C. Philosopybasics.com defines Metaphysics as the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of existence, being, and the world. Aristotle called Metaphysics the "first philosophy" (or sometimes just
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This process began with describing objects based on their characteristics, states of being and actions. In his manuscripts, Aristotle discussed how man might next obtain information about things through deduction and inference. To Aristotle, a deduction was a reasonable argument in which “when certain things are laid down, something else follows out of necessity in virtue of their being so.” His theory of deduction was a logical argument where the conclusion is inferred from two or more other premises of a certain form. In his book Metaphysics, he clarified the distinction between the two. Aristotle taught that form was the unique nature of a thing that gave it its identity while matter was the physical substance of