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But there is an old greek proverb (Aristotle actually) that says "One swallow does not a summer make". What am I to make of this? I don't know who to trust any
by eco 14y ago
But there is an old greek proverb (Aristotle actually) that says "One swallow does not a summer make".
What am I to make of this? I don't know who to trust anymore.
- cpeterso 14y agoI guess it depends on which season Facebook is in now. I vote for summer.
- bira 14y agoFirst day of summer or last day of summer?
- mikejarema 14y agoWinter is coming
- troymc 14y ago"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- eternalban 14y agoOnly the living rise again for a new day. Funny business apparitions need not apply. -unknown
- sandieman 14y agoreddit level of depth here
- ktizo 14y agoIf Aristotle said it, then it is almost certainly wrong. Is generally a good rule not to trust the opinion of someone who can't count the legs on a fly and who also claims that menstruating women cloud mirrors.
- duaneb 14y agoHe's certainly trustworthy, just not on anything material.
- 1123581321 14y agoIt is similar to how you did not bother to check his track record on politics, ethics, virtue and philosophy.
- f0untain 14y ago"Aristotle's theory of slavery holds that some people are naturally slaves and others are naturally masters"
- ktizo 14y agoWell, I've read through a bit of his stuff that I found on Project Gutenberg. Personally, I prefer the outlook of Diogenes. [edit] And don't get me started on Aristotle's politics, which in my view were largely self interested, shallow and myopic. For example - "But is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature? There is no difficulty in answering this question, on grounds both of reason and of fact. For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule." Now if we compare that to the story of Diogenes when he was taken and sold as a slave and then asked by the gangmaster what he was useful for, he apparently told them that he was quite useless at everything, other than as a governer of others. Also he apparently told Alexander the Great "I was searching through some bones for those of your father, but could not distinguish them from those of a slave."
- eavc 14y agoAristotle was a philosopher, not a pundit. Most of his opinions were rooted in reason, even ones that seem silly or backward to us now. It's easy to read the work of people from past eras and be dismissive of them. After all, they were wrong about so much.