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Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
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Aristotle came to Athens in 367 BCE at the age of 17, to go to university. ‘University’ in this case meant the Academy, the philosophical school founded by the great Plato, who himself had been a disciple of Socrates. Athens was the cultural centre of the Mediterranean, and its citizens might have had two reasons for not being immediately impressed by the young Aristotle. He came from the far north of Greece, from the city of Stagira in Macedonia; a country boy, then, doubtless lacking in cultural refinement. In this, the Athenian prejudice would have been misleading. Both Aristotle’s parents came from families with a long tradition of the practice of medicine, and his father was court physician to king Amyntas III of Macedon. Court circles in Macedon were not uncivilized, and the value they placed upon education is demonstrated by the very fact of their sending Aristotle to Athens. There was, however, a second reason Athenians would have had for not welcoming Aristotle with wholly open arms. He was connected with the royal family of Macedon, and Macedon had military ambitions
Anthony Gottlieb - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978-0-203-08278-2
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Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Information Technology
English
Routledge
2013
USA
1-289
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