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Aristotle and the Dark Ages
I'm biased because my first learning about Aristotle was through Galileo in a way. But then, of course, in his Poetics and Ethics, there's a lot to admire. I think the problem with Aristotle is that he's also associated with a way of thinking that fitted so immediately into the church. And it took the dislodging of humanism and early humanism and the Renaissance and the age of reason to dislodge that. You had a teacher, Rory Stewart, who was a literature teacher who left a bit of impression but you said he was really a well-known classicist. He was, that's how he started.