By all accounts he was considered kinda midwit tier in the Ancient World, overshadowed by Plato and the Stoics, but in Medieval times Europe became utterly enthralled with his writings to the point they were taught as the truth of things up until around the 1700s.
Plato's elitist insistence on a philosopher king plunged europe into serfdom. We're still dealing with his anti-human "don't listen to your senses, listen to me" rhetoric today.
>>18001814Because medieval people were mid wits.
>>18001814Renaissance philosophers were retarded. The Romans didn't study Aristotle and Plato to learn philosophy, they did it to learn Greek. Only autistic Romans like Marcus Aurelius took Greek philosophy seriously.
What's interesting to me is that most people perceive the Protestants as having completely rejected medieval Aristotelianism, however the most vocal defender of Aristotle against Descartes and the early Enlightenment was Voetius, a Dutch Calvinist
