ARISTOTLE

BACKGROUND
Aristotle was a
Greek philosopher
born in Stagira,
Northern Greece on
384 B.C.E at
ancient philosophy
era.
Phaestis
Aristotles Mother
Nicomachus
Aristotles father
and was a doctor at
the court of
Amyntas III of
Macedon In 367.
Aristotle moved to
Athens to study at
Platos Academy,
where he stayed for
twenty years.
School of Thought
Peripatetic
School and
Aristotelianism
After he fled, in the
first year of his
residence at Chalcis
he complained of a
stomach illness and
died in 322 BCE.
Aristotle moved to
Athens to study at
Platos Academy,
where he stayed for
twenty years.
School of Thought
Peripatetic
School and
Aristotelianism

After he fled, in the

first year of his
residence at Chalcis
he complained of a
stomach illness and
died in 322 BCE.

concerned with the

notion of living
well.
Eudemonia which
to the Greeks
means living the
good life
(happiness).

The Peripatetic
school was
a school of philoso
phy in Ancient
Greece.

Notion of Virtue
he believes that the
human being does a
distinctive function
to

Its teachings
derived from its
founder, the Greek
philosopher,
Aristotle.
It is derived from a
Greek word
Peripatos It is
now called as
Peripatikos refers
to the act of
walking.
Aristotelianism - is
a tradition
of philosophy that
takes its defining
inspiration from the
work of Aristotle.

fulfil.

Habits are developed

through acting; a person's
character is the structure of
habits
and is

ETHICAL THEORIES
Happiness as the
ultimate
purpose/end of
human existence.

by

formed
what
we do.

Some, he describes
as "practical"
virtues, because
they relate to man's
social nature.
The good for
Aristotle is

In the
ontological dimension,

virtue is a mean; in the

axiological dimension, it is
an extreme or excellence.