Aristotle

Stagira

Macedonia

Athens

Chalcis

They were the best way to convey information

No one else was writing straightforward treatises

He was interested in the exchange process rather than the doctrine itself

He was following Plato’s model

Motion and space

Space and time

Mtion and time

Fire and water

Socrates

Plato

Euclid

St. Augustine

Essence :: being

Susstance :: substrate

Potentiality :: actuality

Cause :: effect

Continence

Desire

Ignorance

Complacence

Natural science

Chemistry

Biology

Metaphysics

Nutritive

Sensitive

Imaginative

Cognitive

Alexander’s failure to restore Aristotle’s native home

Alexander’s failure to support Aristotle’s research

Alexander’s attitude toward the Persians

Alexander’s treatment of Thebes

Astronomy

Philosophy

Physics

Biology