[jumpoddly]

Interesting perspective.

I’ve always had a distaste for Aristotle, preferring Plato, but after reading this I’m wondering if that stemmed more from the additional lens of the person introducing him to me.

Might have to revisit his work as my older self.

[throw0101d]

A decent argument can be made that most of modern life is based of Aristotle's metaphysics:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43277412-aristotle-s-rev...

And that most 'Western values' are basically Christian in origin (with an undercurrent of Aristotle):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_(Holland_book)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WEIRDest_People_in_the_Wor...

MacIntyre argues that when it comes to ethics, the only two viable options are Aristotle or Nietzsche:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue

Certainly Plato is influential, but he doesn't seem to have any practical use in day-to-day life.

[PittleyDunkin]

Plato had a lot more influence on the early church than Aristotle did. I'm not sure if that's true in the African churches, though. I for some reason associate Aristotle with the alexandrian church and with gnosticism (& with islam), at least until Aquinus.

[jumpoddly]

Interesting reads, thanks

I think the broadest most practical day to day knowledge stems from Plato, née Socrates, “I do not think I know what I do not know”