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This book is like reading Aristotle, it feels pretty old but it talks the truth and the truth never changes
by ilcavero 16y ago
This book is like reading Aristotle, it feels pretty old but it talks the truth and the truth never changes
- gjm11 16y agoAristotle was a very smart chap, but it's hardly the case that everything he said was unchangeable truth. (Random examples: his fundamental physics was really, really wrong -- see http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/aristotle_dynamics.html http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/aristotle_dy... for a very brief summary of some important errors; he said that men and women have different numbers of teeth, which they don't; his distinction between "substance" and "accidents" has been pretty much abandoned for ages, with the possible exception of the Roman Catholic Church's teaching on transubstantiation.)
- ilcavero 16y agoYou are right, I should've said Plato
- icandoitbetter 16y agoAre you serious?
- yters 16y agoHe's more right than wrong, esp when compared to our naturalism.
- huherto 16y agoWhat I find amazing about them is that they were able to figure out so many things with a very limited body of knowledge. I understand they missed the mark in many things, but still they were able to come up with many great ideas(even if they were wrong).
- sabat 16y agoI agree with the author's concepts, but I find this book unreadable. It's just too darned dense -- needlessly dense.
- lolfoo 16y agoIt's one of the easiest reads on my shelf. What do you want, a version where you find Waldo instead?