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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Thought for the Day

“It is the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.”

~ Aristotle


*Aristotle

Born: 384 BC Stageira, Chalcidice
Died: 322 BC (age 61 or 62) Euboea

A Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato’s teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle’s writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.

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