The Philosopher, Aristotle

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These were known as sophists with whom
much contempt was held by such philosophers as Socrates. "The greatest school
of Rhetoric in all Greece was at this period held in Athens by the renowned
Isocrates, who was at the zenith of his reputation."(Collins p. 11) A competitor
with this school was Plato's Academy of philosophy which is where Aristotle
arrived at in the year 367 B.C.. Plato became Aristotle's teacher and soon
realized the massive potential and sheer intellect that Aristotle possessed.
Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. in a town just outside the borders of the
Macedonian Empire, called Stageira. He was rumored to have been raised in the
customs of the Asclepiad. "It was the custom in Asclepiad families for the boys
to be trained by their father in the practice of dissection just as regularly as
boys in other families learn to read and write."(Collins p. 3) When Aristotle
turned seventeen his father, Nicomachus died and he was put under the care of
Proxenus of ...

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