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To: eastsider

[”My guess is that he’s more likely an Aristotelian than a Platonist.”]

He’s more an empiricist than an idealist?


10 posted on 07/30/2020 5:16:17 AM PDT by nonsporting (Death to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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To: nonsporting
It’s more a sense that I get from Aristotle’s philosophy — particularly his Nichomachean Ethics and Politics — that Aristotle’s ethical concerns were broader and more unified with his natural philosophy, if you will, than Plato’s.
11 posted on 07/30/2020 5:44:57 AM PDT by eastsider
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