Aristotle's Logic and Metaphysics

Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was born in Stagira, in northern Greece, the son of Nicomachus, a physician at the Macedonian royal court. At seventeen he traveled to Athens and joined Plato's Academy, remaining there roughly twenty years as student and then teacher until Plato's death in 347 BCE. He subsequently spent time in Asia Minor and Lesbos pursuing biological research, and around 343-340 BCE was summoned by King Philip II of Macedon to tutor his teenage son, the future Alexander the Great. In 335 BCE Aristotle returned to Athens and founded his own school, the Lyceum, where his habit of lecturing while walking the covered walkway, or peripatos, gave his followers the name "Peripatetics." After Alexander's death in 323 BCE, anti-Macedonian sentiment in Athens led to charges of impiety against Aristotle; he withdrew to Chalcis, reportedly remarking that he would not let Athens "sin twice against philosophy," and died there in 322 BCE.