• Ghast
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    3 years ago

    Aristotle might be taken aback by the fact that everyone knows he was wrong about everything, but some people still study him.

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      3 years ago

      he gets credit for being less wrong than Plato though.

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        3 years ago

        Is he? Plato’s Republic suggested odd battle tactics, and telling lies to discourage the aristocracy from keeping money. But he also started a kind of proto-Feminism.

        What little I remember of Aristotle was madness from start to finish, but then I didn’t read much of him.

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          2 years ago

          Plato thought that all apples got their essence from an eternal platonic magic Apple. I’d say he was pretty wrong on that.