Aristotle's The Four Causes
ARISTOTLE Aristotle was the student of Plato and Plato was the student of Socrates. Aristotle was the teacher of Alexander the Great. Aristotle was born in the city of Stagira in 384 B.C. Aristotle was sent to Athens when he was about seventeen to study at Plato’s Academy where he stayed and studied for twenty years. He opened his own school later in life. He died in the year 322 at the age of 62. There were fundamental differences between Aristotle and his teacher, Plato Plato believed that there were two worlds: This world, the mundane world in which we live, is unknowable and unreliable, because we can only perceive it through our ever changing senses. The second world is an abstract one, knowable only through our intellect, and far removed from our concept of time and space. In this realm lies the original, the ideal of everything that exists in the mundane plane. It is perfect and steadfast and eternal.