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What are Aristotle's life and works?
Aristotle (March 384 -322 BC) was born in Stajila, Thrace. His father was a court doctor of the Macedonian king. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, he went to Athens Academy and studied under Plato for 20 years until Plato died in 347 BC. He is full of reverence for his teacher, and wrote in his mourning poem: For such a stranger, the bad guys have no right to praise him, and their mouths can't say his name. It was the first time that he proved by words and actions that a virtuous person is a happy person, and none of us can compare with him. The admiration for Plato's personality did not make him blindly worship Plato's theory. According to legend, his motto is: "I love my teacher, and I love the truth more." He clearly criticized Plato's idealism, tried to overcome Plato's tendency to despise sensory experience and not pay attention to the study of motion changes, and founded his own philosophical system. After Plato's death, he left Athens, went to Yasos and opened a branch of the college.

Aristotle's works are divided into two types: the first is published works, leaving only fragments; The second kind of book is a handout, which was not written by him before his death. It was not until 1 century BC that it was edited into a book by the bard on behalf of Andronico. These works constitute the main body of Aristotle's complete works, which are divided into five categories:

(1) Logic works: tools, including six papers: category, explanation, pre-analysis, post-analysis, alignment and demonstration.

(2) Metaphysics works: Metaphysics, which is synthesized from lectures in different periods, is named after Andronico's arrangement in physics works. The word "Metaphysics" means "after physics" in Greek, and its Chinese translation is based on the sentence "Metaphysics is the Tao" in Zhouyi Cohesion.

(3) Natural philosophy works: physics, soul, heaven, birth and death, meteorology, animal history, animal parts, animal March, animal reproduction and small natural works.

(4) Ethics works: Grand Ethics, Nicodemus Skell Ethics, Utemi Ethics. "Politics" and "Collection of Political Systems of City-States" 189 1 years ago were discovered.

(5) Aesthetic works: rhetoric and poetics.

Aristotle is a master of Greek philosophy. According to his understanding of philosophy, philosophy is the confluence of all sciences, including theoretical science, practical science and art. Theoretical science is divided into the first philosophy (so-called metaphysics), mathematics and physics, and logic is the introduction and methodology of theoretical science. Practical science includes ethics to guide individual practice and politics to guide public practice. Art refers to all skills, including manufacturing technology. Aristotle specializes in literature and art created by words. The above five works cover all subjects except mathematics and establish the most comprehensive system of Greek science. According to the classification and order of Aristotle's thoughts, this paper mainly summarizes his physics, metaphysics, idealism and ethics.