List of writers influenced by Aristotle

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List of writers influenced by Aristotle (short, easy-to-understand version)

Aristotle’s ideas have shaped many thinkers over the centuries, from the Middle Ages to modern times. Here is a simple guide to some of the writers influenced by him, organized by period.

Middle Ages
- Al-Jahiz
- John of Damascus
- Maimonides
- Roger Bacon
- Dante Alighieri

Greek commentators
- Asclepius of Tralles
- Eustratius of Nicaea
- Sophonias (commentator)
- Stephen of Alexandria

Islamic commentators
- Averroes
- Avicenna
- Al-Farabi
- Al-Kindi
- Al-Ghazali
- Al-Biruni

Latin commentators
- Albert of Saxony
- Albertus Magnus
- Thomas Aquinas
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
- Jean Buridan
- Gilbert de la Porrée
- Giles of Rome
- John Hennon
- Lambertus de Monte
- William of Ockham
- Gerardus Odonis
- Peter of Auvergne
- Duns Scotus
- Guido Terrena
- Walter Burley
- John of Salisbury

Modern
- Francis Bacon
- Franco Burgersdijk
- Edmund Burke
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- René Descartes
- G.W.F. Hegel
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Isaac Newton
- Immanuel Kant
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Karl Marx
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Baruch Spinoza
- Montesquieu
- Adam Smith
- Denis Diderot

Latin commentators (Renaissance)
- Robert Balfour
- Domingo Báñez
- Niccolò Cabeo
- John Case
- Conimbricenses
- Cesare Cremonini
- Domingo de Soto
- Philip Faber
- Pedro da Fonseca
- Sebastián Fox Morcillo
- John Mair
- Pietro Pomponazzi
- Francis Robortello
- Franciscus Toletus
- Cuthbert Tunstall
- Jacopo Zabarella

Twentieth century
- Mortimer Adler
- Hannah Arendt
- Giannina Braschi
- Philippa Foot
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Martin Heidegger
- Edmund Husserl
- Muhammad Iqbal
- James Joyce
- Alasdair MacIntyre
- Jacques Maritain
- Martha Nussbaum
- Ayn Rand
- Murray Rothbard
- Michael Sandel
- Leo Strauss
- Olavo de Carvalho

See also
- Aristotelianism
- Peripatetic school
- Commentaries on Aristotle
- Scholasticism