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Aristotle versus Lao Tzu comparison chart
 | Aristotle | Lao Tzu |
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| Notable ideas | The Golden mean, Reason, Logic, Biology, Passion |
Taoism, Wu wei |
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| Main interests | Politics, Metaphysics, Science, Logic, Ethics |
The Tao. |
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| 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 |
Confucius. |
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| Influenced by | Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Heraclitus |
Chinese folk religion. |
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