Aristotle, alexander the great teacher Nicomachean Ethics, Wien Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museum Vienna, 21,3 cm, 0,9 kg
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The universal philosopher Aristotle, teacher Alexander the
Great, was one of the most important ancient Greek masterminds.
The following link will take you directly to the original exhibit in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien:
www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/51132/
The following link will take you directly to the original exhibit in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien:
www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/51132/
Aristotle (384-322 BC), born in Stageira, a small ionic town on the east coast of the Chalkidike, therefore also called "the stagirite", came from a family of doctors.
His father Nikomachos was the personal physician of the Macedonian king Amyntas III, while his mother Phaestis was also a member of a prestigious family of physicians.
Aristotle, a disciple of Plato's powerful thought, was not particularly convinced of Plato's doctrine, however, and always sought to develop his own models of thought and theses.
His multi-faceted views on the subjects of metaphysics (general principles of world development), epistemology and logic, ethics, state theory, aesthetics and rhetoric, astronomy, meteorology, physics, comparative anatomy and physiology influenced philosophers and scholars many centuries later, even into the Renaissance and partly into modern times.
The official teaching of the Catholic Church is still largely influenced by Aristotle.
Aristotle, along with Socrates and Plato, is regarded as the founder of the classical philosophical tradition of the West.
Quote from Aristotle:"If the state of the soul changes, so does the appearance of the body and vice versa: if the appearance of the body changes, so does the state of the soul."
Another quote:"Friendship is a soul in two bodies."
Aristotle-Head Original in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, 1st to 2nd century A. D., Roman, Imperial Age, reproduction of a Greek representation from the 4th century B. C., original size 30.5 cm without pedestal, replica reduction with beige marble base.
This product was added to our catalog on Monday, July 4, 2016.