/lit/ - Literature

>>16320945
>they were much more inclined to aristotelianism than platonism
this is a myth, as I said with Aquinas, the texts that actually gave them their biggest ideas came from neoplatonic works THOUGHT to be by Aristotle because the arabic neoplatonists edited them and pseudographically pinned them under Aristotle. Such as 'Liber de Causis' which Aquinas late in life realized was from Proclus, long after he had finished his Summa or other main works. Or 'The Theology of Aristotle' which is a collection of Neoplatonic texts, this also proves the reality of the Dark Ages in the Latin west, they had lost all these works, they didn't even have much of Plato. To give something to Aquinas he began the rediscovery of them.
Nor were Aristotle and Plato in any significant disagreement, as Gerson has proved. Aristotelianism is a form of Platonism.

>>16071572
>every element in Plato's philosophy seems to be ultimately deducible by rational means.
this is still true, hence the copious amounts Commentaries by the late ancients logically showing with 300IQ arguments the simultaneously rational and self-contradictory nature of Nature.
<Here's a little prefiguring of one of Aquinas ways, except MUCH superior of course.