Aristotle was a Greek philosopher best known as the student of Plato and the teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote and taught concerning government, poetry, physics, logic, biology and ethics, among many other things. He was one of the three great Greek scholars, along with Plato and Socrates, and a founder of modern Western philosophy. He joined Plato's Academy at the age of eighteen and remained there until Plato's death twenty years later. He then went on a biological and zoological research trip with Xenocrates and married the daughter of Phythias. After the death of his wife, he was invited to tutor Alexander the Great. He remained in Athens and founded another school of philosophy. He wrote on such a wide variety of subjects that his writings have been called the encyclopedia of Greek knowledge, and it has been suggested that Aristotle was the last man to know all there was to know during the time that he lived. He died of natural causes on his own farm.

亞里士多德是希臘哲學(xué)家，是柏拉圖的學(xué)生、亞歷山大大帝的老師。他和柏拉圖、蘇格拉底被稱為希臘的三個(gè)偉大學(xué)者，他們是西方哲學(xué)的奠基者。他18歲時(shí)進(jìn)入柏拉圖的“學(xué)園”，在那里學(xué)習(xí)了20年。他后來和色諾克拉底一起開始出行做植物和動(dòng)物學(xué)方面的研究，后來和赫米亞斯的女兒琵蒂亞斯結(jié)婚。在他的妻子去世之后，他被邀請(qǐng)去做亞歷山大的老師，亞歷山大后來征服了整個(gè)希臘稱為亞歷山大大帝。亞里士多德在雅典生活下來，并創(chuàng)辦了一個(gè)哲學(xué)學(xué)園。亞里士多德寫作的話題廣泛，因而人們把他的作品稱之為希臘知識(shí)的百科全書。