Aristotle

E17522

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and natural science profoundly shaped Western thought and intellectual history.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Aristotle canonical 431
Aristotele 1
Aristotelis 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (90)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek philosopher
biologist
ethicist
human
logician
metaphysician
philosopher
political philosopher
polymath
rhetorician
scientist
birthDate 384 BC
birthName Aristotle
birthPlace Chalcidice
Macedon
Stagira
child Nicomachus
countryOfCitizenship Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity
deathDate 322 BC
deathPlace Chalcis
Euboea
developed doctrine of substance
doctrine of the mean
hylomorphism
syllogistic logic
teleological view of nature
theory of the four causes
unmoved mover concept
virtue ethics
educatedAt Plato's Academy
linked to: Academy of Athens
employer Macedonian court
era Ancient philosophy
Classical Greek philosophy
ethnicGroup Greek
father Nicomachus of Stagira
linked to: Nicomachus
fieldOfWork biology
epistemology
ethics
logic
metaphysics
natural science
ontology
philosophy
poetics
political theory
psychology
rhetoric
founded Lyceum
linked to: Lyceum of Aristotle
influenced Alexander the Great
Averroes
Christian theology
Islamic philosophy
Jewish philosophy
Maimonides
Theophrastus
Thomas Aquinas
linked to: St. Thomas Aquinas

Western philosophy
medieval scholasticism
influencedBy Plato
Pre-Socratic philosophers
Socrates
knownFor comprehensive philosophical system
foundational work in formal logic
systematic treatises across many disciplines
languageOfWorkOrName Ancient Greek
mother Phaestis
movement Peripatetic school
notableStudent Alexander the Great
Theophrastus
notableWork Categories
Generation of Animals
History of Animals
Metaphysics
Nicomachean Ethics
On Interpretation
On the Soul
Parts of Animals
Physics
Poetics
Politics
Posterior Analytics
Prior Analytics
Rhetoric
occupation teacher
tutor
proposed geocentric cosmology
religion ancient Greek religion
schoolTradition Aristotelianism
spouse Pythias
studentOf Plato

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (436)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

George Boole influencedBy Aristotle
John Stuart Mill influencedBy Aristotle
Galileo Galilei influencedBy Aristotle
Francis Bacon influencedBy Aristotle
Plato teacherOf Aristotle
Plato influenced Aristotle
René Descartes influencedBy Aristotle
Attic Greek usedBy Aristotle
Montesquieu influencedBy Aristotle
G. W. F. Hegel influencedBy Aristotle
Anaxagoras influenced Aristotle
Alexander the Great teacher Aristotle
Western philosophy hasKeyFigure Aristotle
Empiricism influencedBy Aristotle
St. Thomas Aquinas influencedBy Aristotle
Heraclitus influenced Aristotle
Aristotle birthName Aristotle
Adventure Story hasCharacter Aristotle
Christian Wolff influencedBy Aristotle
Aristotelian physics basedOn the works of Aristotle
linked to: Aristotle
Martha Nussbaum influencedBy Aristotle
Leonardo Bruni influencedBy Aristotle
Dante Alighieri influencedBy Aristotle
Maimonides influencedBy Aristotle
Thomas Hobbes influencedBy Aristotle
Parmenides influenced Aristotle
Parmenides discussedBy Aristotle
John Stuart Mill influencedBy Aristotle
subject linked to: John
Martin Heidegger influencedBy Aristotle
Academy of Athens (ancient) notableStudent Aristotle
subject linked to: Academy of Athens
Pythagoras influenced Aristotle
Plotinus influencedBy Aristotle
Cicero influencedBy Aristotle
Stanley Hauerwas influencedBy Aristotle
Zeno of Elea describedBySource Aristotle