Rucka Rucka Ali - Plato vs Aristotle lyrics

Graphic rap battle debates of philosophy
Plato versus Aristotle fight

Ópa, hárika polý 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