One minor correction to one of your other answerers assertions. Aristotle was not "Macedonian". He was an Ionian Greek, who's Greek antecedents colonized the Chalcidice (Spelling) in the northern Aegean which was close to Macedonia. Chalcis was a city on a long narrow island, named Euboea, which is directly off the coast of Eastern Attica. Thus, probably, the name "Chalcidice" (in the northern Aegean) derived from Chalcis on Euboea (???).
After his physician (Court physician to Amyntas II; grandfather of Alexander the Great) father, Nicomachus, died, Aristotle was sent down to Athens and Plato's Academy for his "finishing education" at about the age of 17 - 18. But he stayed with Plato for 20 years, until his death, since Academic life and learning was, arguably, so congenial to him.
The reason that his philosophy is so much an example of the "Greek outlook" on the world is because of his approach to philosophical questions. He usually "calls into council" what he calls (in translation of course) "our predecessors" for most of his philosophical questions. And since his "predecessors" were Greek philosophers spread all over the ancient world [not only in Hellas proper on the mainland], from Italy/Sicily to Persia (modern Turkey), his "predecessors" were a broad range of Greeks living all around the Mediterranean world of 6th - 4rth Century B.C. He was, arguably, the very first Greek to collect as many of his "predecessor's" writings as possible. Hence he had a huge range and scope of various intelligent Greek person's opinions to organize, study and sort out, using the LOGIC "tool" he "discovered"/(developed?) beginning at the Academy.
So if anyone had a lot of "Greek outlooks" to logically analyse and "profit from" it was Aristotle. This is how he puts my thesis (his too) in one of his treatises, quote
ARISTOTLE: "For our study of soul [psyche, in Greek KB] it is necessary, while formulating the problems of which in our further advance we are to find the solutions, to CALL INTO COUNCIL the views of OUR PREDECESSORS who have declared any opinion on this subject, in order that we may PROFIT BY WHATEVER IS SOUND in their suggestions and AVOID THEIR ERRORS."
That sound advice and the extent to which Aristotle took his own advice made him a master on "The Greek Outlook" of the world in his own day and time as well as during all the time that his PREDECESSORS said anything significant or "sound" about their world and time. So Aristotle was a master of what Greeks thought in their almost "prehistory" [Homer; circa 600 B.C.], through the early "historical" poets and physicists up to early "Hellenistic Civilization" which was completed by one of his short-term pupils, Alexander, via his Greek conquest of the ancient world by 322 B.C., with Arisotle's death occurring about 321 B.C. (at his deceased mother's estate on Euboea).
In short Aristotle had studied the "outlooks" of many/most intelligent Greeks, between 600 B.C. to 350 B.C. (approximately) because of the method by which he learned numerous subjects which were of interest to the Greeks, prior to his own time and during his own time.
Aristotle was Greek, well Macedonian, with a Greek education and therefore a Greek outlook, but much like any other culture, Ancient Greece was full of many different people with many varied outlooks.
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One minor correction to one of your other answerers assertions. Aristotle was not "Macedonian". He was an Ionian Greek, who's Greek antecedents colonized the Chalcidice (Spelling) in the northern Aegean which was close to Macedonia. Chalcis was a city on a long narrow island, named Euboea, which is directly off the coast of Eastern Attica. Thus, probably, the name "Chalcidice" (in the northern Aegean) derived from Chalcis on Euboea (???).
After his physician (Court physician to Amyntas II; grandfather of Alexander the Great) father, Nicomachus, died, Aristotle was sent down to Athens and Plato's Academy for his "finishing education" at about the age of 17 - 18. But he stayed with Plato for 20 years, until his death, since Academic life and learning was, arguably, so congenial to him.
The reason that his philosophy is so much an example of the "Greek outlook" on the world is because of his approach to philosophical questions. He usually "calls into council" what he calls (in translation of course) "our predecessors" for most of his philosophical questions. And since his "predecessors" were Greek philosophers spread all over the ancient world [not only in Hellas proper on the mainland], from Italy/Sicily to Persia (modern Turkey), his "predecessors" were a broad range of Greeks living all around the Mediterranean world of 6th - 4rth Century B.C. He was, arguably, the very first Greek to collect as many of his "predecessor's" writings as possible. Hence he had a huge range and scope of various intelligent Greek person's opinions to organize, study and sort out, using the LOGIC "tool" he "discovered"/(developed?) beginning at the Academy.
So if anyone had a lot of "Greek outlooks" to logically analyse and "profit from" it was Aristotle. This is how he puts my thesis (his too) in one of his treatises, quote
ARISTOTLE: "For our study of soul [psyche, in Greek KB] it is necessary, while formulating the problems of which in our further advance we are to find the solutions, to CALL INTO COUNCIL the views of OUR PREDECESSORS who have declared any opinion on this subject, in order that we may PROFIT BY WHATEVER IS SOUND in their suggestions and AVOID THEIR ERRORS."
That sound advice and the extent to which Aristotle took his own advice made him a master on "The Greek Outlook" of the world in his own day and time as well as during all the time that his PREDECESSORS said anything significant or "sound" about their world and time. So Aristotle was a master of what Greeks thought in their almost "prehistory" [Homer; circa 600 B.C.], through the early "historical" poets and physicists up to early "Hellenistic Civilization" which was completed by one of his short-term pupils, Alexander, via his Greek conquest of the ancient world by 322 B.C., with Arisotle's death occurring about 321 B.C. (at his deceased mother's estate on Euboea).
In short Aristotle had studied the "outlooks" of many/most intelligent Greeks, between 600 B.C. to 350 B.C. (approximately) because of the method by which he learned numerous subjects which were of interest to the Greeks, prior to his own time and during his own time.
Kevin
Aristotle was Greek, well Macedonian, with a Greek education and therefore a Greek outlook, but much like any other culture, Ancient Greece was full of many different people with many varied outlooks.