Aristotle

Historical Context

• 384 BC, Macadonia, Greece
• Tutor to Alexander the Great
• Worked with Plato
• Founded a school called Liciem

Ideas

• What makes people happy?
  • Good and successful people have these virtues..
    • Courage
    • Temperance
    • Liberality
    • Magnificence
    • Magnanimity
    • Pride
    • Patience
    • Truthfulness
    • Wittiness
    • Friendliness
    • Modesty
  • Each virtue is at the 'golden mean'(middle) of two vices
• What is art for?
  • Make profound truths of life stick in our minds
• What are friends for?
  • For fun
  • Strategic
  • True friends
• How can ideas cut thru in a busy world?
  • Created the art of Rhetoric.
    • Recognize, acknowledge and sooth people's fears
    • See the emotional side of the issue
    • Make it funny
    • Use example, illustrations to make it come alive