Many philosophers and other writers have been significantly influenced by Aristotle. Antiquity Theophrastus Plotinus Greek commentators Middle Ages Al-Jahiz John of Damascus Maimonides Roger Bacon Dante Alighieri Greek commentators Islamic commentators Latin commentators Modern Francis Bacon Franco Burgersdijck Edmund Burke Nicolaus Copernicus René Descartes G.W.F. Hegel Thomas Hobbes John Locke Isaac Newton Immanuel Kant Karl Marx Jean-Jacques Rousseau Baruch Spinoza Montesquieu Adam Smith Denis Diderot Latin commentators 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 References Aristotle, influenced by -