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In: Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient PhilosophyI. Introduction Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said: Every man is born an Aristotelian or a Platonist. I don't think it is possible that any one born an Aristotelian can become a Platonist, and I am sure no born Platonist can ever change into an Aristotelian. (Woodring 1990, 172-73)1 Of course, Coleridge is wrong at least to this extent: Aristotle was a Platonist who became an Aristotelian (though Coleridge might reply that Aristotle was not born a Platonist). Whatever else we think of Coleridge's words, this much is true: Aristotle is often considered a philosopher reacting to, critical of, and
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I Coleridge said this on July 2, 1830. The remark was recorded by Henry Nelson Coleridge, and included in the first volume of Table Talk (1835). For details, see Woodring 1990, 172-75.
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2 I learned of Trevor Saunders's death from Francisco Lisi and John Cleary, while in Boston for the November 1999 BACAP meeting. I should like to dedicate to his memory my contribution to this Proceedings: a small tribute to his massive contribution to the study of the political philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.
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3 Translations of Plato are from Cooper 1997. Translations of Aristotle are from Barnes 1984. In a few cases I have made minor revisions.
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4 Miller 1991, 280. Miller regards his aporetic reading as a fifth kind of interpretation, but I think what he presents is a complex, and very plausible, version of (2).
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5Aristotle also quotes Sophocles' Antigone at Rhet. 1375a33-b2.
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In: Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient PhilosophyI. Introduction Samuel Taylor Coleridge once said: Every man is born an Aristotelian or a Platonist. I don't think it is possible that any one born an Aristotelian can become a Platonist, and I am sure no born Platonist can ever change into an Aristotelian. (Woodring 1990, 172-73)1 Of course, Coleridge is wrong at least to this extent: Aristotle was a Platonist who became an Aristotelian (though Coleridge might reply that Aristotle was not born a Platonist). Whatever else we think of Coleridge's words, this much is true: Aristotle is often considered a philosopher reacting to, critical of, and
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