![]() ![]() ![]() The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle. TRANSCRIPT Carmen Rabell Typewritten Text Carmen Rabell Typewritten Text Aristotle. every scientist is in his debt."Īuthor: Aristotle, Introduction by Edward P.J. The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle. ![]() ![]() According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, "Aristotle was the first genuine scientist in history. The Poetics is much better known than the Rhetoric, though only the first book of the former, a treatment of epic and tragic poetry, survives. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great starting from 343 BC. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. Aristotle (/ˈærɪˌstɒtəl/ Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. ![]()
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