Based on what you know about Aristotle, do you think Alexander had listened carefully to his tutor?

I think that Alexander did listen carefully to his tutor because he came up with lots of brilliant battle tactics and had a strong knowledge of what he was doing. Aristotle had taught him well because he knew the solutions to almost any problem that he encountered and he knew how to win over the people of the places he conquered. Alexander was a very smart man and without the knowledge given to him by his mentor, Aristotle, he wouldn't have had the success he did on his campaign. In another sense he did forget the teaching of his mentor in that he lost himself in his new found power. After taking over Persia, he got lost in the power he had gain over the years and became selfish and at points, lost his logic which Aristotle was one of the first men to ever teaching formal logic so he would have passed that onto Alexander. Although Alexander was a brilliant military leader and somewhat of a politician in his ability to win people over, I feel that he did listen to his teacher Aristotle, but at times he chose not to follow them.

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