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• 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.