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Aristotle Period 6

Johnpaul De La O

My character was Aristotle, he lived for 61-62 years & was a Greek philosopher and a writer of many subjects Aristotle was born in Stageira, Greece. He was known for: 1)Tutoring Alexander the Great 2)Starting his own school named the Lyceum 3)His writings on physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. 4) First to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy 5)Known for his views on reason and human morality 6)Beliefs in government and the ideal society Aristotle believed that people are not born good, but they learn to be good. He believed that everyone should be educated and have moral values and that they should all be equal but believed that total equality would be harmful to society. He believed that democracy was the least dangerous form of government. Monarchy and aristocracy were good forms but only if there ruler were good virtuous. He thought that the middle class should be given power because these people were free from the excesses found in the upper and lower class. Aristotle thought that women should be as happy as men and should be equal as men and believed that society cannot be happy unless women are happy too Overall, Aristotle believed in freedom for all, and that everyone in society should have the same power, and that with an unbalanced society comes selfishness and evil.

Viviana Pereyra

Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. in a small town named Stagira in northern Greece; Aristotle lived up to 322 B.C. He was a writer, he loved to write articles on many different types of things like physics, ethics, biology, politics e.t.c. He was known for many things such as starting his own school, working with Alexander the Great, and of course his writings. Aristotle didn't believe that people were born good but they learn to be good. He said that reason was what taught children right from wrong, he believed that reason is what seperates humans from animals. Aristotle didnt believe that just one form of government was good enough. He had different opinions on why some governments would all be good for society. He believed that monarchy and aristocracy were good forms of government as long as the rulers were virtuous. Out of all the forms of government Aristotle thought that democracy was the least dangerous, the only problem was he thought because people have equal freedom they might think they are 100% equal in every way and this would cause them to be unable to recognize their different strengths and weaknesses. Aristotle also believed that power should be given to those of the middle class. He believed the rich were too arrogant and the poor would just be searching for revenge but he knew this would be impossible to achieve at this time. Aristotle did not support womens rights. In his opinion there job was to stay at home. Overall Aristotle believed in equality just not 100% equality, he wanted their to be more power to the middle class and he didnt hate women but he didnt see things in women that he saw in men.