Question

what are the achievements of Aristotle

Answer 1

Aristotle’s accomplishments as a philosopher (a term which in his time meant as much scientist as philosopher) were extraordinary, undoubtedly the greatest in the Western tradition. He invented formal logic. He essentially invented descriptive biology, physics, psychology, and comparative political institutions. In the fields of literary theory he wrote the most incisive treatment in antiquity of rhetoric and the first real theory of poetics. In areas we would today describe as philosophical, he systematized metaphysics, epistemology and political theory and wrote the single most studied work in the history of Western ethics, the Nicomachean Ethics. His Politics was the most influence treatment of political philosophy until the time of Machiavelli. He was among the greatest experts in antiquity on the history of philosophy. His writings were the backbone of the arts curriculum in Western universities from the 12th to the 17th centuries.