During his stay in New Orleans he proclaimed martial law, and carried out his measures with unrelenting sternness, banishing from the town a judge who attempted resistance. Of Spain and afterwards for many more the object of his unrelenting hostility, was by birth an Aragonese.
With the unjust execution of Socrates in mind, Aristotle chose to flee Athens, lest the Athenians sin twice against philosophy , as he said, and died a year later in 322 BCE.
Aristotleâs Early Life. Aristotle was born in 384 B.C. in Stagira in northern Greece. Both of his parents were members of traditional medical families, and his father, Nicomachus, served as court physician to King Amyntus III of Macedonia. His parents died while he was young, and he was likely raised at his familyâs home in Stagira.