Aristotle the Dialectician
Aristotle ( ancient Greek Ἀριστοτέλης ) from Sikyon , called the dialectician (διαλεκτικός dialektikós ), killed 252 BC. Chr. Together with Deinias during a disputation exercise in the market of the city the tyrant Abantidas . The source for this process is Plutarch , Aratos 4,3.
The two philosophers did not achieve their actual goal, the liberation of Sicyon from tyrant rule , because the murdered man's father, Paseas , took his son's mercenaries into service and usurped the rule. Deinias escaped the revenge of the new tyrant to Argos , where he later wrote a history of the city. Nothing more is known about the fate of Aristotle, but it is possible that he had a son of the same name, Aristotle of Argos , who was friends with Aratos of Sicyon , the later liberator of Sicyon, and who was involved in the Cleomenic War of 224 BC. In the liberation of Argos.
literature
- Richard Goulet: Aristote "le dialecticien". In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 1, CNRS, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-222-04042-6 , p. 410
- Helmut Berve : The tyranny among the Greeks . C. H. Beck, Munich 1967
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aristotle the Dialectician |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἀριστοτέλης διαλεκτικός (Greek); Aristotle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek tyrant murderer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 252 BC Chr. |