DERIVATION AND PROCESS OF DEMOCRACY, IDEAS OF 'ARISTOTLE'

DERIVATION AND PROCESS OF DEMOCRACY, IDEAS OF 'ARISTOTLE

Greek Philosopher, Aristotle (322-284 B.C.)

Born on 384 BC, Stageria, Chalcidice,

Died on 322 BC (age 61 or 62 )

Region Western philosophy

DESCRIPTION :

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath. He is a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, such as physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Aristotle was one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.






PROCESS OF DEMOCRACY :

Aristotle's father was a doctor at the court of Philip II of Macedonia. when Aristotle was about 17 years old, he left home and set off for Athens, where he wanted to study philosophy under the great Plato. He stayed in Athens for twenty years, studied all manner of subjects including biology, philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, also taught pupils. In 342 B.S. he was invited back to Macedonia to become tutor to young Alexander, Philip's son. Aristotle taught Alexander for about 5 years, and he inspired the young prince with his enthusiasm for wisdom and for the free expression of ideas and all democratic norms. In 336 B.S. Alexander became king and his tutor went back to Athens. There he opened his own school of philosophy. The students used to walk around under trees, discussing this or that philosophical argument, and this led them to become known as the Peripatetics, for peritateting means walking around, in Greek.

HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS :

Aristotle's basic thinking was about how to solve the problems that men actually came across in their lives. Plato, on the other hand, had been much more concerned with what man's life ought to be like. Thus Aristotle was like a modern scientist. He looked at facts and tried to work out new ideas from those facts. This gave rise to the science of logic, or rules of reasoning. Aristotle had a profound influence upon medieval writers and scholars, and he is still an important influence to-day. From his ideas, the norms of democracy had been spread over the world.