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that he called the Lyceum.
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There is a story that near the end of his life,
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Aristotle was himself brought up
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on capital charges, as was Socrates,
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due to another wave of hostility to philosophy.
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But rather unlike Socrates, rather in staying to drink the hemlock,
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Aristotle left Athens and was reported to have said
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he did not wish to see the Athenians sin
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against philosophy for a second time.
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I'll go back to that story in a minute,
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because I think it's very revealing about Aristotle.
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In any way, this story helps to underscore some important