Historical Figures Debate

What you say, actually, is false. Serbia had a much more democratic Constitution then Austria-Hungary did. The Austro-Hungarian Empire issued an ultimatum to Serbia. "According to the terms of the ultimatum delivered on July 23, the Serbian government would have to accept an Austro-Hungarian inquiry into the assassination, notwithstanding its claim that it was already conducting its own internal investigation. Serbia was also to suppress all anti-Austrian propaganda and to take steps to root out and eliminate terrorist organizations within its borders"one such organization, the Black Hand, was believed to have aided and abetted the archduke"s killer, Gavrilo Princip, and his cohorts, providing weapons and safe passage from Belgrade to Sarajevo." [1] Let me move on to my historical figure: Aristotle. I will first give you some insight on his life, who he was, when he lived, what he did, etc. Then I will provide my argument. Aristotle was born in 384 BC in Stagira, Greece. At the age of 17, he enrolled at Plato's academy. In 338 BC, Aristotle left for Macedonia, to tutor Alexander the Great. Alexander's father, Philip, made sure that Aristotle was compensated fairly for his teaching. Once Philip II died, Alexander succeeded him to the throne. He quickly conquered Athens, and reunited Greece under Macedonian rule. Aristotle then went back to Athens, to teach at his academy. Aristotle died in 322 BC. This is my argument for why Aristotle was the most influential person in history. Today, Aristotle is the godfather of the Internet, entrepreneurial start-ups, and e-commerce: as he wrote in his Politics, the entire purpose of society is to enable each person "to attain a higher and better life by the mutual exchange of their different services." His concept created Capitalism. The father of modern day Capitalism, Adam Smith, greatly took from Aristotle in his ideas on how a nations economy could run and how a nation would become successful. Aristotle spearheaded the usage of observation. Observation is a very important trait and skill to have, especially in the science field. He gave way to a giant conglomerate of sciences by observation. Without observation, there is no biology. There is no chemistry. Observation gave way to difference, to change. When people observed change, evolution was created. Without observation, there would be no advances in the field of chemistry. Chemistry is responsible for every single synthetic object that we have. With observation, we learned astronomy. We learned that we could track the movement of the stars. On of Aristotle"s main contributions to philosophy is his work up of logic, upon which he wrote six texts, called together The Organon. Through these texts Aristotle explores the nature of the syllogism, the way in which logic must proceed to avoid fallacies, and the nature of writing "commonplaces," which can be adapted for the moral use of rhetoric. Throughout this, and all his other works, one sees that Aristotle loved classification and definition. When words did not previously exist for a logical phenomena, Aristotle made them up, as he does with the word, syllogism. As the great classifier, however, he is responsible for developing the classification system of plants and animals, which still exists today. [2] You state that WW1 started because of Princip. It would have started without him very soon. Russia was getting very complacent. Germany had many feuds with France before this. Austria-Hungary had an alliance with Germany. The Ottoman Empire wanted Russian lands. Eventually, the Ottomans would have attacked Russia, backed by Germany and Austria Hungary. Due to alliances, France would attack from the West and Germany would repel their invasion. Since Germany, at the time, was INCREDIBLY industrialized, they would have beaten France. Great minds are hard to come by. Radicals who assassinate a man and his wife are very easy to find. There would be no second Aristotle, but there could always be more Princips. Sources: [1]http://www.biography.com... [2]The Organon (I have a copy of it in my room.)