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Originally Posted by Triggar
I studied Aristotle first, so my views towards him are biased because I hated the course at first. But you have to appreciate what he thought - he did afterall teach Plato and plant the seeds of Plato's methodology.
Aristotle's vision for the perfect society is a really interesting concept to think about. If you read Ayn Rand, she bases a lot of her work off Aristotle's concepts.
However, I think Plato had a better idea of what the fuck reality was - Aristotle made me want to kill myself sometimes when I was reading his ramblings. But, meh.
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actually I think Aristotle was a student of Plato, not vice versa. I just read like 50 pages of that book, very hard to follow sometimes.
lil sampling:
"Aristotle's logic could be represented in the following way: (a) All motion is the result of the dynamism impelling potentiality to formal realization. (b) Since the universe as a whole is involved in motion, and since nothing moves without impulse toward form, the universe must be moved by a surpreme, universal form. (c) Since the highest form must already be perfectly realized- i.e., not in a potential state- and since matter is by definition the state of potientiality, the highest form is both entirely immaterial and without motion: hence the Unmoved Mover, the surpreme perfect Being that is in pure form, God."
I feel like I need to smoke a hickory pipe and stroke my chin as I read this.
I know that he questioned the unquestionable (at the time anyway) like system of government and society. it eventually got him killed. 
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