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Josselin Pérez
Mr. Ignacio Arana
English Composition I
14 November 2014
The legacy of Aristotle
Philosophy originated in Greece in the 7th century BC. The word “Philosophy”
comes from the Ancient Greek “Philosophia”, which literally means “love of wisdom”.
Philosophy is the origin of all sciences, and it has been studied since the beginning of time
by many great thinkers of history such as Thales of Miletus, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
Man by nature has the necessity of knowledge that is born of the wonderful natural
mysteries. The Philosophy has changed the history and the way that people perceived what
is around them. All this has been possible entirely by the studies that these great thinkers of
history, such as Aristotle, have made. Aristotle, logician and scientist of ancient Greece, has
had an enormous influence on the next intellectual generations, and his legacy has been
patenting throughout history. Three of the strongest contributions of Aristotle to the ancient
world and science are Metaphysical Science, Ethics and politics science and formal logic.
Aristotle is regarded as the founder of science and philosophy. He was born in the
Greek colony of Stagira, in Macedon. When he was eighteenth years old, Aristotle became
a pupil of Plato at Athens and remained a member of the Academy for nearly twenty years.
After the death of Plato, he left the academy and later on, he became the tutor of the young
Alexander of Macedon. In 335, he returned to Athens, where he spent the following twelve
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years as the head of a school which he set up in the Lyceum. The philosophy of Aristotle is
complex and holds a lot of terms and philosophies, such as metaphysics, Ethics and
Politics, and Logics, that to get know and understand is necessary a deep study. He
approximately wrote 200 books that were eventually burned in the library of Alexandria.
Aristotle and his philosophy are renewed through the years because it has been considered
that ancient philosophy is adaptable to all time. Developing logical thinking to a scientific
level, physical development, and biology are especially known for his metaphysics and
ethics.
Metaphysics according to Aristotle is simply the search for truth. As he said in his
book Metaphysics I, “All men by nature desire to know”. In other words, the object of the
metaphysics is the knowledge of the science of first causes and principles of being,
