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I don’t think it needs to be stated, but the vast majority of Greeks were not Aristotle. If his way of thinking were common, he would have been considered unrem

I don’t think it needs to be stated, but the vast majority of Greeks were not Aristotle. If his way of thinking were common, he would have been considered unremarkable. Take some time and read The Clouds and Plato’s apologia, and think about what happened to Socrates, and think about what that says about how the average person thought about philosophy.

rgrieselhuber 8y ago
And that there is active discouragement to even read philosophy / metaphysics among much the mainstream science community.
- flattone 8y ago
  Should MP be in same lot as philosophy?
  - MattSteelblade 8y ago
    It's a branch of philosophy.
- timthorn 8y ago
  And yet Science is the "new" name for Natural Philosophy. For example, The Cambridge Philosophical Society (http://cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/ http://cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/) was founded in 1819 'for the purpose of promoting scientific inquiry'.