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Has anybody ever noticed the presupositionalist tendency which says "Logic came only from the Trinity" forgets that it came from Aristotle?

Besides the Van Tilian analogy of the problem of universals uses the problem itself as the source of the analogy to make the a priori Trinity sound mysterious.

The transcendental arguments are shamelessly derivative of Epictetus' discourses against Epicurus.

The selective scepticism is clumsily expropriated from Kant. It's almost the rhetoric about stolen concepts, "slapping one's father in the face while on his knees" is actually a self accusation?

I've only been reading a few years, but the further I go the less desire I have for social interactions. Most of my friends seem borderline retarded now, and hanging out has become a drag, TV is garbage, coworkers=morons. Is it normal to be this upity about reading? Am I becoming a hermit?

Following Aristotle it seems to me that the so called wage-"""slaves""" (if, in fact, we really do consider them to be slaves) probably deserve their positions and should therefor be content with them rather than seethe and cry about them. Isn't it apparent that society must always have a lower stratum, from which only the cream can rise? Of course sometimes this cream is sour, and not all can rise with it, but equality is a ridiculous notion and we do need some cogs for society to function. Why is it now that people have forgotten their *place* (that is not even to mention women, etc. in particular)? It really just seems like the agitators who want the slaves to "rise up and break free from their chains, etc." have forgotten or, perhaps, foolishly ignore the naturally inferior nature of the people they wish to enlighten or otherwise just use that rhetoric because they want to overthrow the status-quo but only to control these same people in their own special and preferred way. Any books that articulate this point well?

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Likewise, I'll recommend to you THE PHILOSOPHER's Organon.

Where do I begin with him? What would make a good reading order?

I'm taking a course on ancient philosophy, and I want to do some extra reading on the metaphysics of Aristotle however, I don't have too much extra time on my hands so I can't afford to read all of it. I was wondering if anyone could give me a suggestion of a book that they found useful. Thanks.