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[โ€“] Ghast@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Aristotle might be taken aback by the fact that everyone knows he was wrong about everything, but some people still study him.

[โ€“] jackalope@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

he gets credit for being less wrong than Plato though.

[โ€“] Ghast@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is he? Plato's Republic suggested odd battle tactics, and telling lies to discourage the aristocracy from keeping money. But he also started a kind of proto-Feminism.

What little I remember of Aristotle was madness from start to finish, but then I didn't read much of him.

[โ€“] jackalope@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Plato thought that all apples got their essence from an eternal platonic magic Apple. I'd say he was pretty wrong on that.