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Andrew Smith's avatar

I'm very interested in Aristotle on Art. That guy knew how to think.

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LL's avatar

Right? His ideas on friendship have not, I think, been surpassed. :)

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Andrew Smith's avatar

His ideas about physics sure have! But yeah, he saw a great deal about human nature, among all kinds of other things. I need to write about this dude soon so I can dive in a bit.

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LL's avatar

Smiling. :) I am not familiar with his ideas on physics. I wonder what remains constant from those thoughts.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

This may shock no one, but I recently wrote about some of this:

https://goatfury.substack.com/p/the-parable-of-the-apple

Newton and Galileo had such a hard time describing what they saw accurately (and being believed) largely due to Aristotle's absolutely titanic presence.

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