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Is Aristotle the most intelligent man to ever live? I remember in high school I always used to laugh when we were discussing something and his name came up. He literally came up in like every single class I took, thousands of years later and his name still comes up across multiple domains: chemistry, physics, math, biology, ethics, philosophy, and many more.

How was he able to be so insightful and so far ahead of everyone else? What was Aristotle’s IQ?

>> No.14345758

>What was Aristotle’s IQ?

About as big as my dick in cm :3

>> No.14345760

>IQ
aren't we talking about intelligence?

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>>14345747
Yeah, his metaphysics are still taken seriously til this day.

>> No.14345838

It's basically impossible to shit on him when you take him in context. Sure, a lot of his ideas on the natural sciences, like physics and biology, have been proven incorrect. But he was literally writing thousands of years ago in ancient Athens. He was doing the best he could given his circumstances.

Even then some of his ideas weren't far off the mark. Didn't he come up with an idea about animals that's kind of like evolution?

>> No.14345866

>>14345747
Researchers > Philosophers

>> No.14345884

>>14345747
He was Plato’s student so yeah

>> No.14345906

>>14345838
>Didn't he come up with an idea about animals that's kind of like evolution?
no

>> No.14345910

I would not go so far as "most intelligent," but he does make a strong claim for most commonsensical. All of his findings are derived from sheer upright good sense: this is their glory and their limitation.

>> No.14345915

>>14345910
Oh also he's pretty fail in his attempt to systematize poetry and tragedy, because aesthetics is necessarily a place where common sense begins to fail you. But it was very influential, so an understanding of it is essential.

>> No.14345928

>>14345838
>Didn't he come up with an idea about animals that's kind of like evolution?
two philosophers even earlier than him did: anaximenes and empedocles

>> No.14345942

>>14345866
Researchers are philosophers

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14346158

what is a philosopher but a researcher of being. hmm?

>> No.14346413

>>14345866
/lit/

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14346424

if he's so smart how come he's cancelled

>> No.14346436

>>14346424
lol

that said, I read the passage int he Politics on "natural slaves" recently, and Aristotle is not even consistent with himself. So there you have it

>> No.14346449

>>14345747
Nah, Plotinus btfos him. All other Philosophy is a footnote under Plato and Plotinus, there is nothing left after you read them

>> No.14346502

>>14345747
Meh. Plato was much more intelligent than Aristotle. And the greatest genius who has ever walked this earth is Dante.

>> No.14347558

>>14346449
>Plato
Dude, Plato flat out admitted that he was full of shit in Parmenides
>Plotinus
Lol no

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*invents the empty set*

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*makes all plato-less peripatetics too ashamed to exist*
nuttin personnel ariboble