Circumstances of Aristotle's life in the historical context of the origin of his doctrine

Sudakova Tatyana Grigor’evna, Kaziev Eduard Viktorovich

Aristotle’s life coincided with turning point in ancient history, when the Hellenistic world of the empire of Alexander the Great was born from the conquered world of Greek policies, become the first attempt at the military-political unification of Asia and Europe. Similar processes are taking place in our time: we are witnessing the collapse of the former world order and the formation of a new one. In these processes, the issues of convergence of the cultures of the conventional West and East are still on the agenda, as they were almost two and a half thousand years ago. Consideration of the main events in the life of a person who lived in an era of great transformations and created a philosophical doctrine that became one of the foundations of systemic scientific knowledge for millennia to come is always a subject in demand. Its understanding not only contributes to understanding the origin of some basic concepts of philosophical science, but also contributes to the formation of a different view of modern and diverse global processes, helping to see in them the environment for the emergence of new philosophical paradigms. The study results in conclusion that it was the circumstances of Aristotle's life, which fell at a turning point in the history of the ancient world, as well as his participation in real politics, along with the knowledge accumulated by the Greek tradition, became the main conditions for his elaborating an innovative philosophical doctrine.

Keywords:Aristotle, polis system, Hellenism, categories of general and particular, politics.