4b- 3. Based on what you know about Aristotle, do you think Alexander had listened carefully to his tutor?

Politically speaking, I don't believe that Alexander followed the teachings of Aristotle very closely. The wikipedia page on Aristotle gave this quote,  "The political partnership must be regarded, therefore, as being for the sake of noble actions, not for the sake of living together."  This is saying that communities should be small in order to keep them working properly. Alexander, however, had the mindset that bigger was always better, no matter what the reason or cost. This has always been my personal disagreement with Alexander The Great, because I think that he could have been a very remarkable ruler if it weren't for the fact that he just kept going further and further, never actually stopping to establish a culture or community. This is why when Alexander died, his whole empire seemed to collapse in the confusion. I'm sure it took a while for the news of his death to reach all the way back to Macedonia, which was his birthplace and starting point to begin with. It seems as though Alexander wasn't trying to build an empire, but that he was playing a game to see how many places he could get his name known in. He may have won his game, but if he had payed more attention to his tutor, Aristotle, he may have lived a longer, and possibly happier life. I do think that if he had found a stopping point early on, Alexander could have kept his health and sanity for a much longer period of time.