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Why is Aristotle often considered a more important philosopher than Plato? Kant as well?

The general consensus among philosophers is that Aristotle, Plato, and Kant are the three most important philosophers in the history of the western tradition. I don't dispute that consensus, but I'm curious about why the order is the way it is. From what I've seen online and from what I've heard from one of my professors(Small sample size, I know lol), Aristotle is slightly more important than Plato, and Kant seems to be about as important as Aristotle and a little ahead of Plato. Why do they think this?

What do you guys think of this pecking order? Agree? Disagree? Thanks for your time.
gpt
Really, really depends on what you mean by "important". If you mean "historically influential", Aristotle probably wins for various reasons. If you mean "relevant to current work", Kant probably wins in a landslide. If you mean something like "foundational; historically necessary", then maybe Plato wins. But there's no uncontroversial notion of "importance" to make this evaluation from ahead of time.