who else is super jealous that alexander got to hang out and learn from aristotle all day
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it turned out the two didn't get well along. Alexander was very pragmatic, only interested in global maxima (the main interest was building the biggest possible empire). Aristotle was more into local maxima, looking for ways to build the perfect greek city.
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Bertrand Rusell went much deeper on this in "A History of Western Philosophy"
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But, like, aren't people more jealous that Aristotle got to learn from Plato?
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...And Plato from Socrates?
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I think Alexander should be jealous of Steve Jobs:https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1076018761512103936 …
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