Although Plato was the teacher of Aristotle, this philosopher was totally against the ideas of his former educator. Rather than believing in these words, Aristotle was more focused on human behavior, finding piece of mind, and how to achieve this goal. DISCovering Biography states that Aristotle had one of the largest impacts on "practically every field of subsequent intellectual endeavor...He also relates more closely to a person's emotions, which is going in the other direction of Plato. "Aristotle understands tragedy as a genre that speaks directly to the spectator's emotions."...

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"Galileo was that guy who invented the telescope." This is what most people say when they think about Galileo. However, Galileo did not even invent the telescope; he only made improvements to it so it could be used for astronomy. Galileo did use it to make many important discoveries about astro...

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