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Essays on how philosophers shaped one another — each tied to the passages it rests on.

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  Lineage · 1450 words · draftAristotle through the Islamic worldArabic translators and philosophers rebuilt Aristotle into a system of being and necessity, and Aquinas took much of his metaphysics from that rebuilt Aristotle while rejecting key parts of it.

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  Relation · 2100 words · draftPlato and AristotleTwenty years in Plato's Academy made Aristotle Plato's most searching critic; he kept Plato's questions and the priority of form, but placed form inside the things it shapes.

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  Relation · 1300 words · draftSocrates and PlatoPlato was Socrates' companion and became his chief portraitist, which makes it hard to tell where Socrates' thought ends and Plato's begins.