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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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The Importance of Bringing in Aristotle to Be a Teacher

Alexander the Great was a man of energy and genius. He suffered five or six life-threatening wounds over his lifetime. Alexander brought in Aristotle to be his tutor, who taught him all day long. This is part of how you get that whole view of him as a philosopher king,. As a buddy of mine always likes to say, a cultured genocidal butchorous thug.

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