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His Nichomachean Ethics is probably my favorite work of philosophy

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"Our discussion will be adequate if it has as much clearness as the subject-matter admits of; for prescision is not to be sought for alike in all discussions, any more than in all the products of the crafts. Now fine and just actions, which political science investigates, exhibit much variety and fluctuation, so that they may be thought to exist only by convention, and not by nature . . . . We must be content, then, in speaking of such subjects and with such premisses to indicate the truth roughly and in outline, and in speaking about things which are only for the most part true and with premisses of the same kind to reach conclusions that are no better. In the same spirit, therefore, should each of our statements be received." Nicomachean Ethics, I:3

I am by no means saying that this was Aristotle's only enlightening thought, but in six years of studying philosophy it was the only one that I found. Where Plato was a genius, Aristotle was an ape and a draft horse.

Scott