From Wikipedia
Aristotle was appointed as the head of the royal academy of Macedon. During Aristotle’s time in the Macedonian court, he gave lessons not only to Alexander, but also to two other future kings: Ptolemy and Cassander.[17] Aristotle encouraged Alexander toward eastern conquest and Aristotle’s own attitude towards Persia was unabashedly ethnocentric. In one famous example, he counsels Alexander to be “a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants”
Hey look! It’s the grandfather of Western racial superiority!
We can finally spot where the Enlightenment — which despised the Bible’s universalist ethics, while exalting the Classical philosophers — got its bone-deep racism from.
