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Aristotle, said Professor Goodwin, was born at Stageira, in the year 384 B. C. At the age of seventeen he inherited a fortune on the death of his father and went to Athens hoping to find Plato there. Since Plato was away, he waited for his return, and about 360 became a student at the Academy where he remained until Plato's death. He then went to Asia Minor and spent three years at Hermeas whence he was summoned to Macedon to tutor Alexander the Great...
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