t read,
and have no intentions of ever reading?

I am guessing that you probably had the same stamps of teachers that I had.
They told me, quite authoritatively, that Aristotle and all of those guys were
"analytic" (in the bad sense), "dogmatic", and "a priori" (in the bad sense) thinkers,
that they were "authority-driven" (in the bad sense) "empiric" (in the bad sense)
philosophers, and of course I believed them all, they were so scientific sounding
in their trashing of the absurdities of the past -- there