
HoP 050 - MM McCabe and Raphael Woolf on Aristotle on Plato
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Platonism and Aristotelianis at the Same Time
Aristotle says truth is dearer than our friends. This the famous slogan. I'm wondering if that is kind of a misleading thing for him to say there, because that certainly makes it sound as if plato's just going to play the role of a target. So isn't even more complicated that he kind of tries to act as if platonism and aristotelianis at once eres little tas same o? We don't need that bit or we we don't need the stuff about the form of the good. We just need thestuff about human function. Give me republic book one with the function stuffin ri get about republic iiemes tot,
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