They both founded ‘schools’ of a new kind: the first Academy and the first Lyceum, which survived for centuries as organized institutions, and transformed the founders’ once fluid ideas into rigid ideologies, Aristotle’s hypotheses into dogmas, Plato’s visions into theology. Then again, they were truly twin-stars, born to complement each other; Plato the mystic, Aristotle the logician; Plato the belittler of natural science, Aristotle the observer of dolphins and whales; Plato, the spinner of allegorical yarns, Aristotle the dialectician and casuist; Plato, vague and ambiguous, Aristotle
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