The Life and Works of the Greek Philosopher and Scientist Aristotle
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Colorized bust of Aristotle.
Of the man called Aristotle, few facts about his life have survived until modern times. What information we do have of this ancient Greek scholar comes from his writings and what others have written about him centuries later. His works that have filtered down to us from the ages are not polished and in final form; much of it reads like a professor’s lecture notes. However, in these often-cryptic works we find profound insights into diverse fields of thought that have transcended the millennia. The dozen or so ancient sources that recounted his life were written centuries after his death. Often these biographers contradict each other, and their writing are riddled with gossip and conjecture. The agreed upon facts of his life can be written on a single page. One thing we do know for sure about Aristotle was that he hungered to discover truth and to increase the sum of human kno