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Thinker · 384–322 BCE

Aristotle

Plato's brightest student. Taught Alexander the Great. Wrote the first works on logic, biology, ethics, politics, rhetoric, poetics. Argued the good life is one of virtuous activity over a complete life.

Contributions
  • Founded formal logic
  • Virtue ethics & golden mean
  • Eudaimonia as flourishing
Words that traveled
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
— Aristotle
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
— Aristotle
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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
— Aristotle