Well yeah. He said his historical angle was to express the previously unthought and lead to a reinvigoration of philosophy, not to be an accurate history of philosophy à la Copleston

Ignore philosophy.
Study molecular biology.

Yeah, Heidegger is a great example of what can happen if you read the Greeks carefully and sympathetically. Plenty of big name philosophers did not do this, you’d be surprised how many were absolute pseuds when it came to Aristotle. Behind the dry pedantic exterior there’s a whole universe.

Also Plato/Aristotle hardly opposites, they’re part of the same general school (haeresis). Then again some exaggerate their closeness and gloss over the genius of Aristotle (one popular /lit/ book that does this is Perl’s thinking being, anyone who’s balls deep into Neoplatonism does this because what Aristotle actually said is a threat to their simplistic fantasies).