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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
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differences between Plato and Aristotle.
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At one level, you might say there is an important difference in style
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that you will see almost immediately.
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Unlike his intellectual godfather, Socrates,
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who wrote nothing but conversed endlessly,
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and unlike his own teacher, Plato,