Aristotle was a philosopher and he tutored alexander the great. I think that Alexander the great listened very well to his teacher and applied it to his war tactics and strategies. Aristotle was taught by Plato and Plato was taught by Socrates so you could say that Aristotle was part of a chain of some of the most known philosophers of their time period. When we learned about Greece we learned that people respected Socrates’s studies and teachings based off of the many people who wept as Socrates did not fight against his prosecution at his trial and drank the poison willingly. These teachings passed down into Alexander the great who studied under Aristotle. So Alexander the great learned the teachings of three of the greatest minds of that century. Aristotle studied and wrote about physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Alexander the great knowing these things taught by Aristotle assisted him in being a better leader. Alexander the great used physics in battle to come up with strategies to beat the Persians. Knowing rhetoric’s Alexander could persuade people to follow him and cities to join him or surrender instead of fighting against him and his great army. Alexander was also logical he used logics in figuring out what the Persians would do in battle and what he could do to defeat them. Also learning from Aristotle just gave Alexander general knowledge as well. Alexander was smart and educated so he could make educated decisions. Alexander had to of listened carefully to his tutor, Aristotle.
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