How can you relate Aristotle and Nietzsche?

Question

Are there any common points between them?

Answer 1

not really.
Nietzsche actually distanced himself from the ancient greek way of thinking.
Aristotle focussed on the relationship between man and nature while Nietzsche's biggest point was that in order for us to survive we needed to tear down civilsation

Answer 2

They both had an interest in Ethics. If you look at the wikipedia pages for both men and view the 'main interests' section on the right, you'll see that this is the one point of overlap. There may be others not mentioned by wikipedia.

Nietzsche:
Main interests: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics, Ontology, Philosophy of history, Psychology, Value theory

Aristotle:
Main interests: Politics, Metaphysics, Science, Logic,Ethics

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Are 'Will to Power' and 'Passion' the same thing? See notable ideas:

Nietzsche:
Notable ideas: Apollonian and Dionysian, Death of God, Eternal Recurrence, Herd instinct, Master-Slave Morality, Übermensch, Perspectivism, Will to Power

Aristotle:
Notable ideas: The Golden mean, Reason, Passion

You can then look at what ethical views they have in common and which ones are different and also which ones they got from other people and which ones they developed themselves.

You could look at whether their ethics is based on religious or non-religious ideas (secular, humanist, etc). Aristotle looked at the relationship between man and nature. Also, are humans just animals, red in tooth and claw, unable to behave ethically or do they have higher selves? Aristotle I think was the first of the great thinkers to get out into nature and do 'scientific' observations of animals etc, rather than sitting around and trying to decide issues by debate among learned men.

Was he the first to 'objectify' humans. What does objectfying humans mean for ethics, in terms of free-will versus determinism? Do we choose to do things consciously, out of free-will and are responsible for them and answerable to a deity or do other things or people cause us to do things and its not our fault? What did Nietzsche think about the same issues?

See Aristotelianism link for more common/different concepts.

Answer 3

They were both philosophers to one extent or another and I think that's about it.