Aristotle of StagiraBy: Briane Emerson

• Aristotle was born in a small Greek town

called Stagira.

• Aristotle created the theory

Syllogism, a form deductive reasoning

consisting of a major premise,

minor premise, and a conclusion.

• Socrates taught wealthy young men of Athens including Plato. Eventually Citizens of Athens considered Socates‘s views

unorthodox and sentenced him to death for corrupting the

morals of the youth and the city.Plato devoted himself to philosophy and opened an

academy in 386.

•Aristotle was Plato’s prized student.Alexander the Great was a student of Aristotle for four years.

• Aristotle wrote the first book on psychology called Para

Psyche, Greek for “about the mind or soul.” It is better known in Its Latin Form De Anima. The book includes the first mentions of many ideas that are basic to psychology today, such as the

laws of association

• Poetics is the earliest surviving work of

dramatic theory and the first to focus on literary theory.

• Aristotle’s’ zoology and the classification of species

was the first known attempt to classify animals

into groups according to their behavior and by the

similarities and differences between their physiologies.

•Aristotle wrote over 15 treatises based on his

study of zoology.

• In two works, ‘Enquiry into Plants’ and ‘On the

Causes of Plants,’ he made the first

systemized study of the plant world.

•He attempted to classify over 500 plants into

trees, shrubs, undershrubs and herbs.

In conclusion, Aristotle greatly influenced all

aspects of early science.