{"slug": "aristotle", "label": "Aristotle", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q868", "qid": "Q868", "description": "Greek philosopher", "entries": 26, "years": 24, "span": [-386, 1978], "span_label": ["387 BCE", "1978 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 5}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "plato", "label": "Plato", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "philip-ii-of-macedon", "label": "Philip II of Macedon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lesbos", "label": "Lesbos", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "academy", "label": "Academy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "macedon", "label": "Macedon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "asia-minor", "label": "Asia Minor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aegean-sea", "label": "Aegean Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "december", "label": "December", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-catholic-church", "label": "Roman Catholic Church", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "university-of-paris", "label": "University of Paris", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -386, "year_label": "387 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Plato founds the Platonic Academy in Athens, where he teaches Aristotle until 347 BC.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367650579#Greece", "title": "387 BC", "revid": 1367650579, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -383, "year_label": "384 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Aristotle, Greek philosopher (d. 322 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209990210#Births", "title": "384 BC", "revid": 1209990210, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -370, "year_label": "371 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "It is suggested that the original comet associated with the Kreutz Sungrazers family of comets passes perihelion at this time. It is thought to have been observed by Aristotle and Ephorus during this year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1282391642#Astronomy", "title": "371 BC", "revid": 1282391642, "section": "Events › By topic › Astronomy"}}, {"year": -369, "year_label": "370 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Theophrastus, Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school (d. c. 285 BC) Chanakya", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1274974189#Births", "title": "370 BC", "revid": 1274974189, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -366, "year_label": "367 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Aristotle arrives in Athens and teaches at Plato's Academy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291620451#Greece", "title": "367 BC", "revid": 1291620451, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -366, "year_label": "367 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "The Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, goes to Athens as a pupil at Plato's Academy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291620451#Philosophy", "title": "367 BC", "revid": 1291620451, "section": "Events › By topic › Philosophy"}}, {"year": -349, "year_label": "350 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Aristotle argues for a spherical Earth using lunar eclipses and other observations. Also he discusses logical reasoning in Organon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367585688#Science", "title": "350 BC", "revid": 1367585688, "section": "Events › By topic › Science"}}, {"year": -347, "year_label": "348 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Aristotle leaves Athens and Plato's Academy, after which he resided in Assus in northwestern Anatolia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209992031#Greece", "title": "348 BC", "revid": 1209992031, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -346, "year_label": "347 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Aristotle leaves Athens due to the anti-Macedonian feeling that arises in Athens after Philip II of Macedon has sacked the Greek city-state of Olynthus in 348 BC. With him goes another Academy member of note, Xenocrates of Chalcedon. They establish a new academy on the Asia Minor side of the Aegean Sea at the newly built town of Assus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326556206#Philosophy", "title": "347 BC", "revid": 1326556206, "section": "Events › By topic › Philosophy"}}, {"year": -343, "year_label": "344 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, travels from Assus to Lesbos to study natural history, especially marine biology.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172872#Science", "title": "344 BC", "revid": 1354172872, "section": "Events › By topic › Science"}}, {"year": -341, "year_label": "342 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, is invited by Philip II to his capital at Pella to tutor his son, Alexander. As the leading intellectual figure in Greece, Aristotle is commissioned to prepare Alexander for his future role as a military leader. (or 343 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209992354#Macedonia", "title": "342 BC", "revid": 1209992354, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -334, "year_label": "335 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Aristotle returns to Athens from Macedon and opens a peripatetic school in an old gymnasium called the Lyceum. It contains a museum of natural history, zoological gardens and a library.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=996420033#Greece", "title": "335 BC", "revid": 996420033, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -326, "year_label": "327 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The relations between Alexander and Aristotle are embittered by the execution of Aristotle's nephew, the historian Callisthenes of Olynthus, who is charged with treason. Callisthenes has been accompanying Alexander to write a chronicle of the campaign.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1259124608#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "327 BC", "revid": 1259124608, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -326, "year_label": "327 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Callisthenes of Olynthus, Greek historian, great nephew and pupil of Aristotle (b. c. 360 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1259124608#Deaths", "title": "327 BC", "revid": 1259124608, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -324, "year_label": "325 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Aristotle writes Ta Ethika on virtue and moral character (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372590647#Philosophy", "title": "325 BC", "revid": 1372590647, "section": "Events › By topic › Philosophy"}}, {"year": -322, "year_label": "323 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "The Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, faces a strong anti-Macedonian reaction in Athens following the death of Alexander the Great. Aristotle is accused of impiety by the Athenians. However, he escapes to Chalcis in Euboea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311163255#Greece", "title": "323 BC", "revid": 1311163255, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -321, "year_label": "322 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Aristotle, Greek philosopher and scientist (b. 384 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1316405653#Deaths", "title": "322 BC", "revid": 1316405653, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -317, "year_label": "318 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Aristoxenus, a Greek peripatetic philosopher, and writer on music and rhythm, and a pupil of Aristotle, writes a treatise on music called the \"Elements of Harmony\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481410#Music", "title": "318 BC", "revid": 1370481410, "section": "Events › By topic › Music"}}, {"year": -286, "year_label": "287 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Theophrastus, Greek Peripatetic philosopher and pupil of Aristotle (b. c. 372 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370523789#Deaths", "title": "287 BC", "revid": 1370523789, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -284, "year_label": "285 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Theophrastus, Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school (b. c. 370 BC). 288 B.C. is also given as a potential date of death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370920977#Deaths", "title": "285 BC", "revid": 1370920977, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 900, "year_label": "900 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The Persian scientist Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi distinguishes smallpox from measles in the course of his writings. Holding against any sort of orthodoxy, particularly Aristotle's physics, he maintains the conception of an 'absolute' time, regarded by him as \"a never-ending flow\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364042634#Medicine", "title": "900", "revid": 1364042634, "section": "Events › By topic › Medicine"}}, {"year": 1246, "year_label": "1246 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Robert Grosseteste translates Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics from Greek into Latin, which marks the true start of the rediscovery of the philosopher by Medieval Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356775338#Arts", "title": "1246", "revid": 1356775338, "section": "Events › By topic › Arts"}}, {"year": 1270, "year_label": "1270 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December", "text": "December – Crucial aspects of the philosophy of Averroism (itself based on Aristotle's works) are banned by the Roman Catholic Church, in a condemnation enacted by papal authority at the University of Paris.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362480805#Europe", "title": "1270", "revid": 1362480805, "section": "Events › Europe"}}, {"year": 1591, "year_label": "1591 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The first of the Conimbricenses commentaries on Aristotle, by the Jesuits of the University of Coimbra, is published.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358075583#Date_unknown", "title": "1591", "revid": 1358075583, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1620, "year_label": "1620 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Francis Bacon publishes the Novum Organum (beyond Aristotle's Organon) on logical thinking. 1.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363705489#Date_unknown", "title": "1620", "revid": 1363705489, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11 – The People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#February", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › February"}}]}