Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's 'Timaeus'

The purpose of this study is to determine Aristotle''s attitude toward the content and method of Plato''s natural science. Plato and Aristotle have often been regarded as on opposite sides of a philosophic ''Great Divide''. On the other hand, those who have found that the two men were in agreement have sometimes mentioned only scattered instances of that agreement. There is need for a new comparis...