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Lloyd P Gerson has just published a book entitled Aristotle and Other Platonists <\/em> , an effort to show that the two great philosophical opponents of ancient Greece are not opposed at all. He points to the \u201cNeoplatonic\u201d writers of antiquity, who attempted to harmonize the two philosophers. The TLS reviewer, Christopher Shields, is unconvinced, acknowledging that \u201cPlato\u2019s influence on Aristotle was paramount,\u201d but arguing that Aristotle rejects certain Platonic theses, both \u201cpositions central to Plato\u2019s thought, as well as others closer to its periphery.\u201d He ends with the intriguing comment that the influence of Aristotle on Plato has been unfortunately neglected: \u201cthe two men interacted on a regular basis, with significant periods of interruption, for some two decades.\u201d The fact that this interaction did not produce a tertium quid is evidence of their continuing disagreements, but also leaves the suggestive hint that similarities between them may have arisen as much by Aristotle\u2019s influence on Plato as the opposite. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lloyd P Gerson has just published a book entitled Aristotle and Other Platonists , an effort to show that the two great philosophical opponents of ancient Greece are not opposed at all. He points to the \u201cNeoplatonic\u201d writers of antiquity, who attempted to harmonize the two philosophers. The TLS reviewer, Christopher Shields, is unconvinced, acknowledging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"\n