Both Uses of
Aristotle
in
Atlas Shrugged
- While I was writing a thesis on the influence-upon subsequent metaphysical systems-of Aristotle's theory of the Immovable Mover.†
Chpt 1.5 *Aristotle = ancient Athenian philosophers who did much to influence Western thinking (384-322 BC)
- Ragnar Danneskjold lay stretched on a couch, reading a volume of the works of Aristotle: "....for these truths hold good for everything that is, and not for some special genus apart from others.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers who did much to influence Western thinking; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
A memory trick to remember the relationships between Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and Alexander the Great is to put them in reverse alphabetical order: Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle, who taught Alexander the Great.