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Aristotle versus Confucius comparison chart
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Notable ideas The Golden mean, Reason, Logic, Biology, Passion Confucianism, Doctrine of the Golden mean
Main interests Politics, Metaphysics, Science, Logic, Ethics Moral philosophy, Social philosophy, Ethics
Influenced Alexander the Great, Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Averroes, Albertus Magnus, Maimonides Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Ptolemy, St. Thomas Aquinas, Ayn Rand, and most of Islamic philosophy, Christian philosophy, Western philosophy and Science in general Mencius.
Influenced by Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus Lao Tzu, Taoism, and the I Ching.
School / Philosophical Tradition Inspired the Peripatetic school and tradition of Aristotelianism Confucianism

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