The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler. Welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine. Oh, yeah. Hello everyone and a very warm welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine.

This week I thought I would try something just a little bit different and so the subject for this week's episode is history from A to

Z so we're gonna start with the A's in the immortal words of Kid Creole.

Let's start with the A's. So this week is all about the letter A. Now don't worry this is the history of the world

podcast you haven't accidentally tuned into Sesame Street. This is the history of the world

podcast but this week we're going to concentrate on historical figures

beginning with the letter A. And we start this journey by looking back at Aristotle. Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and

Polymath who lived from 384 B.C. to 322 B.C. He was a student of Plato and later became a teacher of Alexander the Great. His works cover a wide range of subjects including metaphysics, natural

philosophy, logic, ethics, politics and the arts.

Aristotle's intellectual legacy is vast

and his methodologies and analytical frameworks laid the groundwork for various disciplines that are still

studied today.

So now let's look back in the archives of the History of the World Podcast to a time when we talked about Aristotle.

Plato was around the age of 30 at the time of Socrates death and rather than be a

figure of controversy within Athenian society like Socrates

Plato decided to set up a school of philosophy

so that the Socrates' ways of thinking were being developed in an institutionalised

environment and hopefully therefore not upsetting too many people by asserting opinions on to others.

Plato's School would be called the academia and was admired institution that would be preserved after Plato's lifetime.

Plato and his students would philosophise about all aspects of humanity, including human emotions and the nature of human behavior, continuing the enlightened

discussions of Socrates. It is from Plato's name that we get the word platonic as in platonic love which is a form of love

alternative to romantic and something that was typical of the emotions being discussed and debated within the

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