Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC)[1] was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Platoand teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic,rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and metaphysics.
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Aristotle distinguishes between 2 kinds of wisdom or useful knowledge that can be acquired by humans.
1. The first kind of wisdom, theoretical wisdom, consists of possessing knowledge of what reality is like, of knowing what is true and what is false.
2. The second kind of wisdom distinguished by Aristotle is practical wisdom. It consists of knowing what ought to be done, of knowing what makes life good.
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