PHILOSOPHER

Aristotle

384 BC - 321 BC

Aristotle

Aristotle (; Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, pronounced [aristotélɛːs]; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy within the Lyceum and the wider Aristotelian tradition. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology, and government. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aristotle has received more than 16,639,878 page views. His biography is available in 203 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 195 in 2019). Aristotle is the most popular philosopher, the most popular biography from Greece (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Philosopher.

Aristotle is most famous for his philosophy on the four causes. He believed that there were four causes for everything, and that they were material, formal, efficient, and final.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Aristotle ranks 1 out of 1,081. After him are Plato, Socrates, Confucius, Pythagoras, René Descartes, Gautama Buddha, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Avicenna, John Locke, and Niccolò Machiavelli.

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Aristotle
384 BC - 321 BC
HPI: 96.24
Rank: 1
Plato
427 BC - 347 BC
HPI: 95.54
Rank: 2
Socrates
470 BC - 399 BC
HPI: 94.34
Rank: 3
Confucius
551 BC - 479 BC
HPI: 91.76
Rank: 4
Pythagoras
570 BC - 495 BC
HPI: 91.39
Rank: 5
René Descartes
1596 - 1650
HPI: 90.95
Rank: 6
Gautama Buddha
566 BC - 452 BC
HPI: 90.82
Rank: 7
Immanuel Kant
1724 - 1804
HPI: 90.76
Rank: 8
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712 - 1778
HPI: 89.83
Rank: 9
Avicenna
980 - 1037
HPI: 89.56
Rank: 10
John Locke
1632 - 1704
HPI: 88.31
Rank: 11
Niccolò Machiavelli
1469 - 1527
HPI: 88.12
Rank: 12

Contemporaries

Among people born in 384 BC, Aristotle ranks 1. After him is Demosthenes. Among people deceased in 321 BC, Aristotle ranks 1. After him are Perdiccas, Craterus, King Xian of Zhou, Neoptolemus, and Archon of Pella.