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Also find what I wrote in (3) problematic, since I don't think "taught that reasons, causes etc. had to be transcendent" represents Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle very well.

And to wander off-topic a bit, I don't really know who those guys taught, but even if all three taught "scions," they probably didn't teach the same type of scion. E.g., if you think of Socrates as a cross between Father Brown and Johnny Rotten (just trying to stretch your mind here, since I suggested in my last email to you that he Socrates was something like John Wayne in The Searchers or Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry or Steven Seagal or any number of detective-story or action-adventure (anti)heroes), then his students - who are self-chosen, and Socrates finessed the issue of funding by living in poverty and taking no money for his gabbing - are a cross between Peter Wimsey and Siouxsie Sioux. Whereas Aristotle's students'll just be a bunch of privileged indie boys on the Web (not to say that one of them won't go on to conquer the world).