Aristotle

Pupil of Plato, tutor of Alexander, founder of the Lyceum. Wrote across logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, biology, and rhetoric — a one-person curriculum for the next two thousand years.

Works

• c. 340 BC

  Treatise

  Nicomachean Ethics

  Aristotle's long treatment of how to live well. Introduces the five intellectual virtues (epistēmē, technē, phronēsis, sophia, nous) and grounds the rest of practical philosophy in them.