Abstract

This article argues against the popular image of Aristotle as a common-sense philosopher, an image built by opposing him to Plato. In the first part, there is a short survey of ways in which some modern commentators try to ignore passages of Aristotle’s texts which do not fit into supposedly Aristotelian down-to-earth view of human life. The second part presents an example of a philosopher who brings these suppressed fragments to the fore and sees in them the essence of Aristotle’s writings on the human good