



It was largely from Aristotle’s works that the West inherited its entire intellectual approach, including the problems it investigates and its methods of inquiry.

Over his lifetime, he transformed most of the subjects he investigated, writing as many as 200 treatises (of which only 31 survive) on topics ranging from logic, politics, and ethics, to biology, mathematics, and metaphysics. Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who, like his legendary teacher Plato (and his legendary teacher, Socrates), is considered to be one of the most significant figures in the history of Western philosophy.
