Plato vs Aristotle - Rucka Rucka Ali

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Plato versus Aristotle

Fight

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Greetings, I’m the GOAT

The patéras of filosofía

With the bedsheets for clothes

I make philosophy complicated from the very onset

Trying to find the Universals, it’s the problem of concepts

We want virtue, but where we find it?

How could two be one and one, but also be a four divided?

I’ve never seen a beautiful but somehow I know it

So I must have learned it before I was born which means my soul

Is traveling from life to life, which means the body is inferior

And true philosophers discover things in their interior

I teach it to the little men that live a life pathetic

For every word you know someone had to be prophetic

A philosopher, a man who goes to heaven slash Hades

Closed off to people that indulge in good food and ladies

It’s virtuous to stay away from pleasures of the earth

Forget the holy ghost, I’m the father of Jesus

Christianity’s the product of my philosophic base

Western historia wouldn’t stay if I didn’t create

The perfect system of questions, what is true?

How do I know?

What should I do?

Who should rule?

What’s art?

You’re welcome

Yo teacher

I don’t mean to disrespect you

But you’re wrong so much that to ask you a question is to wreck you

The fuck is this dimension you get information from?

There’s one Reality I’ve been to, this one

Let me help you to identify the way to form a Concept

The shit ain’t from up in Heaven, it’s intrinsic in the object

My mom said do the shit that good dudes do

Pretty simple, works for me Papa Plato, how 'bout you?

Why can’t I enjoy the life of moderation with my homies?

If you know a better life than Eudaimonia then show me

And why you act like pleasures of the flesh is so below you?

You been known to fondle little boys more than Jared Fogle

Oh, we goin' there, teach (what's up)

Matter of fact, let’s fast forward to the coming culmination of your thought

The glorious Empire of Rome will stumble over and will fall

Because of all the mysticism in your dialogues you taught 'em

Say hello to a millennium of following the orders of a Pope

You could take a bath in Heaven, don’t be asking him for soap

Or for more than couple hundred calories to eat a day

Ironic Plato’s influence got 'em to kill you if you’re gay

I must have had a bit too much wine with my gyro

Are you blaming me for all the problems of medieval Europe?

Roma was devoured by barbarians and Germans

How you pin the fall of Rome on one Greek dead person?

You’re jealous, I’m the father of all philosophers

And the only work of yours is written my Nicomachus

Your own books burned, thrown away, they didn’t need it

That doesn’t mean you blame authoritarianism on me then

You ever see me force someone to do anything?

I just thought you could use a bit of help from a philosopher king

Because you’re stupid, it’s not your fault, we all live in a cave

Only a few could see the light and show the rest of you the way

Up to the real world of forms where everything is perfect

All you see is shadows on the wall without us to interpret

Admit it, most people can’t think in big ideas

What, should we let them be in charge?

Yeah, it’s called democracy

Man, we got this

We got five senses, not fix

So where you get this abstract outside the box shit?

The world’s here in front of us, your forms sound obnoxious

It is what it is, bruh, also known as Logic

You gave us the Dark Ages, I gave you science

Aquinas had to hide how much he liked me or he’d die

They woulda burned him if they knew the extent of my impact

I brought Renaissance, Enlightenment, United States, facts

You brought the reoccurring trend of Faith in the Supernatural

Epic Beef is what you find between yourself and Aristotle

It’s just the two of us, Plato, we’re the Terminators battling

Across the span of time and we ain’t never gonna squash it nigga, let’s go

End battle

Pretty good, pretty good… for my student

Nah man, your momma’s toga’s pretty good

That shit was pure fire

Eh not as pure as my Concepts, you’ll get it one day

Man, fuck your Concepts

Ay, I brought filosofía into the world, I could take it away

Man, first you were like Jared, now you sound like Bill Cosby

I don’t know who is Bill Cosby

He’s this black guy in jail for…

Oh, a black man in jail, you’re so specific

Man, I’m tryna be pacific but you keep…