Q: How did Aristotle influence Alexander?

I'm wondering, what impact did Aristotle have on Alexander, as his tutor, that affected how the student went on to change history? I'm thinking of this from the perspective of if either Aristotle had different ideas, or if someone else had been the prince's tutor, or what have you...

CONSOLIDATION: Here's something I found -- Alexander's tutor may have encouraged his eastern conquests; at one point he was advised "be a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as friends and relatives, and to deal with the later as with beasts and plants".
 
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Here's something I found -- Alexander's tutor may have encouraged his eastern conquests; at one point he was advised "be a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as friends and relatives, and to deal with the later as with beasts and plants".
Which Alexander did not do.
 
Yes, I remember reading in Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy that Aristotle had very little influence over Alexander, although I'm not sure who Russell himself got that from. Part of it might be the difference between the ideal state outlined in Aristotle's Politics and Alexander's empire. Aristotle (again, if Russell is to be believed) said the ideal state would have no more than 100,000 people. Alexander's had considerably more.
 

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Of course, there is also the famous anecdote about Aristotle and Phyllis, demonstrating how much influence a woman can have on a man, even a wise man.
 
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