Aristotle From Poetics

One thing that I kind of like about Aristotle and is also something that I don't like about him, is that alot of his writings seem to be common sense stuff to most people today. Probably worded way better than most of us could have ever written it that way but non the less most people could probably come up with close to the same type of answers. It sounds like in this piece that he is just stating some obvious facts about poetics and tragedy that most of us already know like there needs to be a plot, characters, launguage, and thought. He words it in a way that is interesting and maybe brings up some points that most people probably never even thought about in such that a tragedy has to end with the reader feeling sympothetic or sad towards the main character or otherwise it is not quite a tragedy. I don't know if this is my bias or not because I am from the present but I can see how in the past, people like Aristotle needed to be around because common sense of that time was not quite the common sense of today in that people seemed to be less smart.