# Aristotle

- Id: `aristotle`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/aristotle/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `04d1fbada0c2462bde9fc33e32164f56a98b09637c0eaa83c1789d0d36f478be`

## Summary

Plato’s student and founder of the Lyceum, Aristotle distinguished causes, ends, and forms to investigate virtue, civic life, speech, and the arts.

## Overview

Aristotle died in 322 BCE; later Peripatetic editing and modern Aristotelian vocabularies postdate him.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "384–322 BCE",
    "era": "Hellenistic and Roman era",
    "distance": "2,347 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "greek-schools",
    "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
    "detail": "Peripatetic",
    "labels": [
        "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "Peripatetic"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": -322,
    "display": "322 BCE",
    "reason": "Aristotle died in 322 BCE; later Peripatetic editing and modern Aristotelian vocabularies postdate him."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 6,
    "passages": 1396,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "grc"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 2
}
```

## Attested thinker encounters

```json
[
    {
        "person_id": "plato",
        "name": "Plato",
        "relationship_type": "teacher",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_refs": [
            "modern.sep.aristotle"
        ]
    },
    {
        "person_id": "theophrastus",
        "name": "Theophrastus",
        "relationship_type": "colleague_and_successor",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_refs": [
            "modern.sep.aristotle"
        ]
    }
]
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Stagira",
        "period": "384 BCE",
        "description": "Birthplace in Chalcidice.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Athens",
        "period": "367-347 and 335-323 BCE",
        "description": "Plato's Academy, then Aristotle's Lyceum.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Assos",
        "period": "c. 347-345 BCE",
        "description": "Philosophical circle under Hermias.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Mytilene",
        "period": "c. 345-343 BCE",
        "description": "Research and teaching on Lesbos.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Pella",
        "period": "from 343 BCE",
        "description": "Macedonian capital to which Philip II summoned Aristotle to tutor Alexander.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2024/entries/aristotle/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Mieza",
        "period": "c. 343-340 BCE",
        "description": "Traditional setting for teaching Alexander.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Chalcis",
        "period": "323-322 BCE",
        "description": "Final refuge and death.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/"
    }
]
```