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How are they even real? Just think about it, it's something that really happened. They were real humans who were born, were kids who ran around and fell down, made themselves dirty. Had normal human bodies you could touch.

It's surreal how you can be THAT superior that you will be remembered for all eternity and are not distinguishable from mythological figures and Gods. Like where is even the difference between Zeus and Plato anyway. Could be both made up, you can't even tell.

And related to that: what makes a person special? Do you think someone is born for a higher purpose or is it more random?

Post what you're reading now and what you'll be reading after

Now:
Thomas Bradwardine - Speculative Geometry
Jacob Marschak - Economic Information, Decision, and Prediction vol. III
Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Jeremy Bentham - Economic Writings Vol. III
Aristotle - Physics

After:
Thomas Bradwardine - Speculative Arithmetic
Gerard Debreu - Mathematical Economics
Galileo Galilei - Two New Sciences
John Stuart Mill - A System of Logic
Aristotle - Secretum Secretorum

In the Opus Majus, Roger Bacon proclaims that the Library of Alexandria was simply a signifier of ostentatious wealth.

Is there any other examples of famous writers proclaiming similar things regarding the Library of Alexandria?

>"I guess that's why they call it PHYSICS by Aristotle".

Aw, c'mon Aristotle, SERIOUSLY?

What kind of philosophy do you have if you want to kill all the remaining Native American peoples extant in the Americas?

Best Aristotleian writing?

Metaphysics >>>>>>>> Physics >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the SNORganon.

What do I read now that I finished reading this dude?

Should I read plato?

>>9958352
Reddit: the philosophers. Aristotle was the best of the Greeks.

>>9490897
Virtue is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency

>the key to happiness is excellence
>except if you're ugly and have no gf, then your life is shit

>the right way to act is by following the middle way between the extremes
> except that sometimes this middle way is closer to an extreme than to the other one so you must figure out yourself what the right way is lol

>trust me guys, the earth is in the middle of the Universe
>no such thing as atoms, I know for sure
>some people should totally be slaves

This is the thinker that has influenced Western culture the most, everyone.

START FLOURISHING

What is the best starting point for Aristotle, and what are his more important works? I tried previously to start with Nicomachean Ethics, but it was far too dry and I was unable to finish it. I'm going to attempt his works again, but want to start somewhere else. Is Metaphysics a good outset?

>wrong about all of his natural science
>overly reliant on his senses
>rejected Plato's most profound and correct idea (Forms)
>sexist and pro-slavery
>no writing skill whatsoever

Give me one good reason to read Aristotle if I'm not interested in Politics.

I don't understand the intersection of Aristotelian logic and philosophy.

What fundamentally decides whether a "trope," or feature of an individual thing, is essential or not? What decides whether something is accidental? Why don't genera and species admit of infinite theoretical cross-categorisations, like:
>Genus: Animal
>Subgenus: Footed animal
>Subgenera: Bipeds + Quadrupeds
>Etc.
rather than Aristotetelians classifying "footedness" as not essential, as not a secondary substance?

What determines what gets secondary substance status?

Can someone explain Metaphysics to me? Or point me in the right direction to get a better grasp

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