Aristotle is the product of his own benevolent world-view and universal genius meeting the philosophical rigor of Plato.

Aristotle studied at Plato’s Academy for 20 years before departing to create his own, competing philosophy. In Aristotle, we see the rejection of Plato’s World of Forms and the resultant conclusions in epistemology, ethics and politics. Aristotle believed in only one reality - this one. Aristotle was an era-defining, world-changing thinker, and his achievements are simply too numerous to list, but they include: the discovery of the laws of logic, his defense of the principle of non-contradiction, the invention of the syllogism and deduction, the theory of imminent realism, his conception of time as a dimension measuring motion, his explanation of what a definition must include and omit, his four causes, his notion of “essence”, and his founding of the science of biological taxonomy.

Any single one of these achievements could constitute a great intellectual’s life work. Aristotle achieved all this and more, laying the philosophic basis for reason, freedom, science and human happiness.

Aristotle represents Greece at the height of its civilisation, and the greatness of the human intellect.