Ron, I have had an idea about this for some time, that I'd like to share: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:29 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As Phaedrus argues: >
> Such a philosopher was not long in coming. > His name was Aristotle'. (ZMM, p 374) > > Ron; > This is one of those statements, if I ever had a chance to speak with Bob, > I > would take up with him because > that is a highly inaccurate statement for someone having read "Metaphysics" > and > the Socratic dialogs. > > John: My idea is that often we take how another person uses a source rather than the direct source itself as the basis of our critique. For instance, there is a vast multitude of Christ haters out there in the world, who despise Jesus because of what Christianity has taught and become, but if you look at Jesus's words directly you see that he didn't have so much to do with what his religion has become. It's thus that I interpret Phaedrus' antagonism against Aristotle, seeing as how he (Phaedrus) was in a battle with academic powers that had adopted Aristotlean "laughter" to demean the philosophical position that Phaedrus was pushing. And it'd be nice to go to the source on every single issue we are confronted with in life, but life isn't long enough and so we do the best we can. Is how I see it. John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
