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Jiang says Aristotle may have been a materialist because of personality and the influence of his physician father, but this reintroduces the problem of why a materialist studied under Plato for 20 years.
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Jiang says Aristotle may have been a materialist because of personality and the influence of his physician father, but this reintroduces the problem of why a materialist studied under Plato for 20 years.
"Exactly. So, yeah. So it is entirely possible that Aristotle was a materialist because that was just his personality. Right? The influence from his..."
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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