ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a widely propagated European "myth" which claims that European "philosophy" is nothing but a "series of footnotes to Plato". The history of Ancient Hellenic philosophy is like the Hellenic pantheon. The historians of philosophy who emphasize the similarities between the two philosophers and, following A. N. Whitehead's characterization of the history of Western philosophy as nothing but "a series of footnotes to Plato", see Aristotle's philosophical writings as the first and probably the best footnotes. In the interval of time separating us from the beginning of such questioning in late antiquity, the fortunes of Aristotelian philosophy, on the balance of the West's theocratic appraisal, have changed several times. For Aristotle, and other Platonic philosophers, a search into any of the subjects will inevitably lead to all the rest with which it is ontologically and methodologically connected.
