>He was the first to create a comprehensive system of Western
>philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science,
>politics and metaphysics. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences
>profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended
>well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by
>modern physics. In the biological sciences, some of his observations
>were only confirmed to be accurate in the nineteenth century. His
>works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which were
>incorporated in the late nineteenth century into modern formal logic.
>In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on
>philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish
>traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian
>theology, especially Eastern Orthodox theology, and the scholastic
>tradition of the Roman Catholic Church. All aspects of Aristotle's
>philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today.