Aristotle. The desire to know

Aristotle is philosophy itself. Since 367 BC, when the 17-year-old from Stagira entered Plato's Academy and remained there until the Athenian's death in 348 BC, Aristotle's thought has been one of the driving forces of human theory and practice. While he acquired his philosophical foundation at the Academy, his critical engagement with Platonism transformed him into an independent thinker interested in everything that affects and surrounds us, giving an innovative impetus to physical research. But it wasn't only physics in its many facets that captured his interest; ethics, politics, logic, rhetoric, theology, and metaphysical ontology are all areas of research that Aristotle himself initiated, even if they didn't originally bear those names. The framework of thought inaugurated by Aristotle, continuing the Greek beginning of philosophy, is and will continue to be, even from critical positions, the very horizon of thinking, since its challenge is none other than to develop a desire for knowledge that beats in every human being by the fact of being one: pántes ánthropoi toû eidénai orégontai phýsei.