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Today, we turn a corner, because now we meet Aristotle, Plato’s greatest student, and his most important critic. A man who admired his teacher deeply, learned from him for twenty years, and then quietly said, “Yes… but have you actually looked at the real world?”

If Plato taught us to look up, Aristotle teaches us to look around. Plato gave us the heavens and the spiritual; Aristotle gives us the earth and the physical.

Plato gave us ideals; Aristotle gives us the particulars.

Plato gave us the Forms. Aristotle gives us form in things.

And in doing so, Aristotle becomes one of the most influential thinkers in history, a man who introduced and shaped logic, science, ethics, politics, theology, and the entire intellectual tradition of the West.

This episode is the first of a six-part exploration of his astonishing mind.

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