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Aristotle was arguably one of the most significant philosphers in all of the history. He was born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, in Greece, in 384 BC. When he was seventeen or eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens, Greece, where he studied what he would go on to write his philosophical ideas about. The majority of his idealogies addressed subject such as physics, logic, ethics, politics, and government, among other subjects.

In regards to ethics, Aristotle believed that ethics had to be a practical study as opposed to a hypothetical study. This means that he believed one should practice happiness and fufillment as opposed to just studying what makes ones happy and fufilled. He also believed in function, in that an object is only effective if it can do its job well. A leg is only effective if one can walk, etc.