Thursday, August 11, 2005
Spring 2000 -- Klaus Brinkmann's class on the history of ancient philosophy
Here's the final paragraph from a paper I wrote on Aristotle's theory of knowledge:
Aristotle did not throw his hands in the air and make an appeal to pure intellect when confronted with a tough problem, but instead rolled up his sleeves and got to work on crafting a plausible answer firmly grounded in the world around him. If nothing else, that is what I have taken away from Aristotle’s philosophy -- a powerful determination to come to an understanding of the truth, no matter how imperfect that understanding may be.
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Aristotle did not throw his hands in the air and make an appeal to pure intellect when confronted with a tough problem, but instead rolled up his sleeves and got to work on crafting a plausible answer firmly grounded in the world around him. If nothing else, that is what I have taken away from Aristotle’s philosophy -- a powerful determination to come to an understanding of the truth, no matter how imperfect that understanding may be.
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