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12346514 No.12346514 [Reply] [Original]

What exactly is the point of reading philosophy written by people who lived before we had a proper understanding of things like physics, biology, and neuroscience?

Most of these guys unironically believed in woo-woo shit like souls and flat earth. Aristotle thought that rocks fell when you dropped them because they wanted to go home. What value is any of that supposed to have in 2019?

>> No.12346529

those who don't know history...

>> No.12346534

>>12346514

It's good cuz it's old.

>> No.12346537

>>12346514
>What exactly is the point

because it interests you?

>> No.12346548

>>12346514
Just because they were wrong about some things doesn't they were wrong about everything.

>> No.12346551

>>12346514
do you think we dont believe in woo woo shit

>> No.12346556

>>12346514
>Aristotle thought that rocks fell when you dropped them because they wanted to go home.
Ahahahahaa is this true? What a retard lmao

>> No.12346559

>>12346514
>Aristotle thought that rocks fell when you dropped them because they wanted to go home

:3 that's cute

>> No.12346561

>>12346514
It's not like biology, neuroscience, and physics are all they talked about. There's lots of questions that science hasn't yet answered.

>> No.12346565

>>12346556
You couldn’t prove him wrong even with the counter information widely available to you and you certainly would never have been able to discover the truth on your own.

>> No.12346571

>>12346565
>You couldn’t prove him wrong
I don't need to

>> No.12346572
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12346572

>>12346514
ITT:

>> No.12346574

>>12346514
I mean, the leader of the free world believes global warming was invented by the Chinese... and people unironically believe vaccines are bad, the earth is flat, and lizard people are real.

>> No.12346586

>>12346571
Yes you do, in order to legitimately criticize him, retard. But you can’t. You’re incapable of making discoveries on your own and you just use a vague received understanding of information of the time to feel smug about the past. If you were in Aristotle’s time you would take your weak understanding of his discoveries for granted in order to call some phonecian scientist a retard. You are worthless.

>> No.12346597

>>12346556
cringe
>>12346586
based

>> No.12346599

>>12346586
>Yes you do
No I don't. I don't need to disprove a falsity. Aristotle is a hack fraud.

>> No.12346606

>>12346514
>Aristotle thought that rocks fell when you dropped them because they wanted to go home.
Extremely cute if true.

>> No.12346687

>>12346586
Any brain dead moron could arrive at aristotle's discoveries independently. Stop sucking an over 2000 year old dead guys cock, you freaky bitch