Protrepticus

All right.

First up, Aristotle's Protrepticus, lost or survived? What you got?

Survived.

Uh, ooh, nope.

But then if you look at late Aristotle... aristotle vehemently denies that the soul is immortal um so it seems like there's this period now does put aristotle in those works accept the theory of forms that's the question jaeger thought there was some evidence of that i'm pretty skeptical so i think like um there are really two dialogues that have some possible evidence.

One is in the Protrepticus where he mentions, Aristotle mentions like natural standards, standards for, you know, standards set in nature for like how goodness and stuff and platonic forms could be described as natural standards, but it seems like a lot of other things could be those too.

So it, doesn't seem like that really forces us to say if you're not already kind of thinking he's a Platonist.

And also the Eudemus, he thinks that basically if you're going to think the soul is immortal in the way that Plato did, then you have to think that the theory of forms is true.