PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 26

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) unarguably the most influential scientist in European history,who not a native of Athens,was a pupil of Plato's Academy for close to twenty years.Like Alexander the Great,he was born in Macedonia and came to Plato's Academy when Plato was 61 years old.Aristottle's patriarchy was a respected physician and scientist and that speaks volume the inspiration especially his philosophical project started from home.He may not have been the last great philosopher but certainly he was Europe's first great biologist.Unlike platonic fantasy,he was interested in nature's study and finding suitable explanation for natural processes.While Plato shut its eyes to everything around us and turn heavenwards to unrealistic world of eternity and ideas,Aristotle did the opposite,a stark contrast and hardly spared him.Aristotle was empiricist while his predecessors were both rationalists alike.Plato was a mythologist and a poet and they claim Aristotle had extensive writings,though debatable and unproven.