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ARISTOTLE

The life and revolutionary ideas of Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher who systematized logic, ethics, politics, and natural science—and introduced the Unmoved Mover when reason hit its limit.

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CHAPTER ONE The Master of All Trades HE’S NOT A philosopher. Not just a philosopher. He’s a one-man university before universities exist. A renaissance mind before the Renaissance. A system-builder in a world without systems. Before Aristotle’s name becomes synonymous with “intellectual,” he’s just a kid in a royal court, absorbing the natural world like a sponge and treating knowledge like a blueprint to be drawn, redrawn, and refined. Let’s just list it. • Biology. • Zoology. • Psychology. • Logic. • Ethics. • Rhetoric. • Politics. • Metaphysics. • Physics (his version, anyway). • Poetics. • Epistemology. • Astronomy. • Meteorology. He doesn’t dabble. He defines. Aristotle doesn’t just...

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