Books Z'-H': The best possible organization of democracy and oligarchy for their protection. Description of the ideal polity. Fundamental principles and goals of education in the ideal state. The upbringing of the youth. Gymnastics and music.

Aristotle, son of the physician Nicomachus, was born in Stagira in 384 B.C. Information about the early years of his life is scant. At the age of seventeen, he went to Athens to study at the Platonic Academy. He stayed there for twenty years, from 367 to 348 B.C., when Plato died. Then Aristotle left for Assos in Troas, and after a three-year stay there, he went to Lesbos and then to Macedonia, where he took on the education of the royal child Alexander.

When his student ascended to the throne, Aristotle settled in Athens and founded his school, the Lyceum. After the death of Alexander (323 B.C.), the philosopher's stay in Athens became difficult. He was forced to flee to Chalcis, his mother's homeland, where he died in 322.

A universally minded philosopher, Aristotle created a vast and valuable body of philosophical and scientific work. Epistemology, logic, theology, physics, biology, psychology, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics are the main fields of knowledge he researched and studied. The Alexandrian Hermippus estimated Aristotle's works at 400. We have preserved lists that include 143 titles of his works. Diogenes Laertius estimated the number of lines in Aristotelian writings at 440,000.

The influence of his work on shaping global thought was powerful for centuries and remains so.