Philosopher of the Mean
Aristotle
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Plato’s student and tutor to the young Alexander the Great, who founded the Lyceum and wrote on logic, nature, ethics, politics and art.
Key work: Nicomachean Ethics
“All men by nature desire to know.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Virtue is a mean between too much and too little.
Virtues grow through practice, as skills do.
Humans are by nature political animals.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
On the climb
Deduction and InductionValid or Just Familiar?Ad HominemYou TooWhy Stories Move UsThe False DilemmaNatural Means Good?Necessary and Sufficientand 9 more
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Connected thinkers
PlatoHis teacher
Anicius Manlius Severinus BoethiusTranslated Aristotle’s logic into Latin
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)Commentator on Aristotle
Moses MaimonidesRead Aristotle alongside scripture
Thomas AquinasJoined Aristotle to Christian theology
William of OckhamWrote commentaries on Aristotle’s logic
Martha NussbaumModern Aristotelian