Plato vs. Aristotle The Teacher and the Pupil When Aristotle was seventeen years old, he was brought to the Academy, which was founded by Plato, to study among the great philosophical minds of his era. Plato, who himself was a pupil of the legendary Socrates, was around 61 years old at the time, and quickly realized that Aristotle was his star pupil. Known as "the mind" of the Academy ... was infamous for breaking up topics into subtopics, and subtopics into other subtopics. Being a man who was intrigued with the natural world, which was unlike Plato, Aristotle felt that forms were not indepe...

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