Plato

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>>I'm with you, Joanna. Plato is overrated. Give me Aristotle any day. jks
>
>Aren't you aware that A was P's pupil,  that our A is mostly students' 
>lecture
>notes, that virtually all  of A's published writings have disappeared 
>forever,
>that for more than a millennium no philosopher saw an antagonism
>between the two, and that many of A's seeming criticisms of P'tonic
>doctrines are taken directly from P's own works (cf. the "third
>man argument" in Metaphysics  which is found word for word
>in the Parmenides)?

Yes. I had Michael Frede for classical philosophy at Princeton. If you are 
suggesting that there is no difference between the ideas and approaches of 
Ari and Plato, you have a hard climb to make. jks

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