Antiquity. Aristotle

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The Highest development the Greek philosophy reaches in the person Aristotle Stagirita (384-322 BC). It was encyclopaedic, universal mind which as though synthesised all antique science and philosophy. In its works for the first time there are reasonings on plants and animals not only in consumer sense, but also from the point of view of scientific research.

This scientist is considered the most versatile thinker of the Ancient Greece and simultaneously the most outstanding in those days the researcher of the nature. It the first began to study natural phenomena and the first has made attempt to systematise them. To it in a classical antiquity nobody wrote books about the nature. Aristotle tried to reveal a secret of a life origin, asserted that for occurrence live beings from a dead matter action of special force of creation - entelehii (grech is necessary. - action). Studied a brain - body of mental activity.

Aristotle conducted supervision mainly behind live beings, diligently writing down the noticed. It illustrated Siberian salmons the sketches, which steels the unique scientific grants helping at researches and supervision.

At seventeen-year age Aristotle was trained in Athenes, in the Platonovsky academy which were in those days the centre of a science. It studied logic, poetics and philosophy under the direction of the greatest Platon. Platon named Aristotle ' a brain ' Academies. Aristotle differed inexhaustible energy, extraordinary diligence and observation. He has written some hundreds works on logic, ethics, a policy, physics, natural study.