Aristotle's performance is quite different. It is not only that in his works Platonic glamour is conspicuous by its absence, and that instead we find (if such a thing may be said without offense of so great a figure) decorous, pedestrian, slightly mediocre, and more than slightly pompous common sense. Nor is it only that Aristotle much more than Plato — in any case, much more frankly than Plato — co-ordinated and discussed pre-existing opinions that prevailed in what must have been a copious literature. The essential difference is that an analytic intention, which may be said (in a sense) to have been absent from Plato's mind, was the prime mover of Aristotle's.
Joseph Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis 57
Oxford, OUP: 1994.
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