Great Divorce

The Great Divorce Plato, Aristotle, and the Fracture of Western Philosophy In 367 BCE, a seventeen-year-old boy from Macedonia arrived at Plato's Academy in Athens. For the next twenty years, Aristotle would study under the master, becoming the most brilliant student the Academy had ever seen. But when Plato died in 347 BCE, something unexpected happened: Aristotle did not inherit the Academy. Ins...