The epistemological methodology of Aristotle. The acquisition of knowledge through proof and definition. The demonstrative reasoning.
Aristotle, the son of the physician Nicomachus, was born in Stageira in 384 B.C. There is very little information about the early years of his life. At the age of seventeen, he went to Athens to study at the Platonic Academy. He remained there for twenty years, from 367 to 348 B.C., when Plato died. Then Aristotle left for Assos in Troas and after a three-year stay there went to Lesbos and subsequently to Macedonia, where he took on the education of the royal child Alexander.
When his student ascended to the throne, Aristotle settled in Athens and established his school, the Lyceum. After the death of Alexander (323 B.C.), the philosopher's stay in Athens became difficult. He was forced to flee to Chalcis, his mother's homeland, where he died in 322.
A universal spirit, Aristotle created a vast and valuable philosophical and scientific body of work. Epistemology, logic, theology, physics, biology, psychology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics are the main fields of knowledge that he researched and studied.
The Alexandrian Hermippus counted Aristotle's works at 400. To this day, lists have survived that include 143 titles of his works. Diogenes Laertius estimated the number of lines in Aristotle's writings at 440,000. The impact of his work on the formation of global thought was, for centuries, and remains, strong.
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