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Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. in a small town close to Mount Athos Macedonian call Stagira, hence its nickname, the Aristotle. His father, Nicomachus, was court physician to Amyntas III, father of Philip and therefore grandfather of Alexander the Great. Nicomachean belonged to the family of Asclepiades, who claimed descent from the founding god of medicine and whose knowledge is transmitted fromgeneration to generation. It invites us to think that Aristotle was initiated into the secrets of child medicine and then came his love of experimental research and positive science. Orphan of father and mother a teenager who was adopted by Proxenus, which could show their gratitude years later adopting his son named Nicanor.

Aristotle

In the year 367, that is, when he was seventeen yearsold, was sent to Athens to study at Plato's Academy. It is not known what kind of personal relationship was established between the two philosophers, but judging by the few references made to each other in their writings, one can not speak of undying friendship. Which, on the other hand, it makes sense if you consider that Aristotle would start his own philosophical system basing it on a deepcritique of Plato. Both started from Socrates and his concept of eidos, but the difficulties of Plato to insert his eidetic world, the world of ideas, in the real world to be forced to Aristotle outlining terms as "substance", "essence" and "form" definitely alienate him from the Academy. But it is absolutely false the legend that Aristotle left Athens disgruntled because Plato, on his death, hisnephew Speusippus appoint to take charge of the Academy. As the Macedonian Aristotle was not legally eligible for that position.

Alexander the Great on the horizon

In Plato's death, which occurred in 348, Aristotle was thirty-six years old, spent twenty of them speaks synchronizing with the study of teaching and was in Athens, as they say, no good for nothing. So he must have no brainer when helearned of Atarneus Hermias, a Greek soldier of fortune (for more details, eunuch) spoken seized the northwest sector of Asia Minor, was meeting in the city of Axos a few disciples of the Academy would like to collaborate with him in the Hellenization of his dominions. Aristotle was installed in Axos accompanied by Xenocrates of Chalcedon, a fellow academic, and Theophrastus, a student and futureheir to the Aristotelian legacy.

The Aristotle would there three years peaceful and fruitful, dedicated to teaching, writing (much of its Common wrote it there) and reproduction, as they first married a niece of Hermias called Pythias, with whom he had a daughter. Pythias must have died very soon after and joined another Aristotle Aristotle, Erpilis name, who gave him a son, Nicomachus, whodevoted his Ethics. Since Aristotle himself wrote that the man must marry at thirty-seven years and women at eighteen, it is easy to deduce what ages should take over and when he joined them.

After the murder of Hermias, in 345, Aristotle moved to Mytilene (Lesbos), dedicated, accompanied by Theophrastus, the study of biology. Two years later, in 343, he was hired by Philip of Macedon to takecharge of the education of his son Alexander, who was then thirteen years old. Neither is known about the relationship between the two, as legends and counterfeiting have erased all traces of truth. But if true character than his contemporaries attributed to Alexander (who unanimously branded as arrogant, drinking, cruel, vindictive and ignorant), not noticed any feature of the influence that Aristotlecould have on him. Neither is aware of the influence of Alexander on his master in politics, as Aristotle continued preaching the superiority of the city-states when his alleged disciple was setting and the foundations of a universal empire without which, according to historians, the Hellenic civilization had succumbed much earlier.

The return home

Shortly after Philip's death, Alexander...