__Aristotle__ (; 384–322BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical Greece in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy - wikipedia 
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/
Aristotle provided a complex synthesis of the various philosophies existing prior to him. It was above all from his teachings that the West inherited its intellectual lexicon, as well as problems and methods of inquiry.
As a result, his philosophy has exerted a unique influence on almost every form of knowledge in the West and it continues to be a subject of contemporary philosophical discussion.
Here we explore some of Aristotle's ideas in relation to the work in the federation.
# Notes on Poetics
According to Aristotle in his Poetics, to imitate is a basic human instinct and poetry is in essence the art of imitation. The subject of that imitation he sees as being men in action.
# Poets as makers
The Greek word for poet also means 'maker' (see the Scots word for poet - Makar). After all to imitate or copy is a kind of creation - a re-creation. Aristotle was definitely a Wikipedian.
# Techne as an art in rhetoric
I have heard that Aristotle uses the word techne when he talks about the 'art' of poetry. That word means skill, craft or the means or processes used to accomplish something. This constellation of meanings is close to our use in the word technology.
So Aristotle doesn't conceive of the poet as a prophet/ shaman or poetry as the result of divine inspiration or an 'art' in the sense that we might use it.. So the separation between art and science is minimised.
# Aristotle's Politics We are particularly worried about Aristotle's conception of politics, not because it is dangerous (as with Plato), but because it is bureaucratic (as in Brazil (1985 film)).
# See also - Aristotle's Politics