Besides Plato and Socrates, the Western cultures and development also relied on Aristotle, a famous philosopher in the Greek world. He was born in 384 BCE, in Stagira, Greece. He was the son of Nicomachus who was a physician of the Macedonian king Amyntas II. When he turned 17, he entered Plato’s Academy, Greece's premier learning institution. He was a student at Plato’s Academy, also being a student of Socrates. After Plato died, many people thought that Aristotle would inherit the institution, but he didn’t because he disagreed with some of the philosophy ideas of Plato. In 338 BCE, Aristotle started teaching Alexander the Great. In 335 BCE, he went back to his city when Alexander succeed following his father conquering Athens. In 335 BCE, Aristotle founded the Lyceum which was his own school. In the Lyceum, he studied that knowledge could be obtained by interacting with physicals object. As life being a philosopher, he concentrated on the systematic concept of logic. Additionally, Aristotle spent most of the rest of his life studying, researching, teaching, and writing. Furthermore, the divisions of Greece were divided by a philosopher who was Aristotle. The division consisted democracy, monarchy, oligarchy, and tyranny. Later on, Aristotle had disease of the digestive organs which led to his death in 322 BCE. His crucial legacy that helped us becomes a more modern world like today, Democracy. Aristotle was one of the philosopher who aided Western culture innovated and more developed.
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