When we talk about Aristotle’s we talk about one of the most important and complete philosophers of all times, he was rationalist, because he said that all can be explained by reason. Aristotle lived in an epoch when the situation started to be more interesting, like more wars and conflicts, when the society need a change after a period of calm and with no much new things.

Aristotle is the third of three consecutive great philosophers, they where Socrates and Plato. So he was influenced by these guys and them ideas, but not only in the way to continue a theory or propose, but also to criticize it and expouse a new theory of it. The one that influence more to Aristotle was Plato because he was Aristotle teacher and master; Plato put all kind of ideas in Aristotle head about many things like reality or society. But the difference is that Aristotle think in more implications of different theories like the soul propose.

He porpoise a new way to see and understand the society and the human and its behavior. He talks about many things like matter and form, he said that the form is what meters because it performs a determinate function and it doesn’t matter the composition of that object, because it always is going to realize the same function.
Aristotle also talks about the soul, this is important because he is trying to explain the mind and all body functions. He said that soul is something immaterial, independent of the body and capable of surviving its death, but anyway the soul always is going to need the body because it works like a container, the soul needs the body to express to transmit psychic functions.

Aristotle said that we are political animals, because we need and must live in a political community and have relations with other persons called citizens in the polis, he said that we depend of the polis, that a man only can be perfect in a polis because is the only environment in which we can develop our virtues. He also talks about ethics; he said that Ethics is the inquiry into the human good, the good for human beings. The human good is eudaimonia that is the good for all, is what we can do for society by using our virtues.
So Aristotle is a very important man and philosopher for us because he was the one that influence many other philosophers and his theories and porpoises of society, human and all that it implies keep in time and represent a very important way of see us and how we interact although it was in a totally different time and circumstances.