07-06-2019, 08:04 PM
Went to a little social gathering tonight (as well as last night... I'm having a very active social life lately), had the opportunity to talk with a chick who specializes in Aristotle and actually knows her stuff (f. in. she can read ancient Greek). Pretty much got an entire lecture out of her, hahaha.
Good stuff.
Also everything seems to be pointing towards the fact that the Greeks of old (you know the ones I mean
) had a pretty friggin' good idea on how the world actually operates, or at least had very good intuitions in a great many cases. Trouble is, their ideas - as they are currently taught and/or function in a "common sense" type of way - had been *direly* misinterpreted and misrepresented by 1) at first, medieval scholasticism, 2) later on, by the Renaissance and Enlightenment guys. Also, as it tends to happen, quite many of the simplifications that have been made of these guys are the direct result of mistranslations, lawlz.
Interesting trivia fact (which kinda agrees with an intuition I've been having for quite some time): it kinda seems that a lot of New Age-y notions, which employ terminology borrowed from bastardized Eastern religious and philosophical stuff, are pretty much an oversimplification of Plato and Aristotle, lol.
So, since I can't read ancient Greek, I'm now going to the ol' academic trick of "comparative study of as many translations in as many languages you know, fool!" of Aristotle's "Metaphysics", heheh. I also have someone to consult with.
Good stuff.
Also everything seems to be pointing towards the fact that the Greeks of old (you know the ones I mean
) had a pretty friggin' good idea on how the world actually operates, or at least had very good intuitions in a great many cases. Trouble is, their ideas - as they are currently taught and/or function in a "common sense" type of way - had been *direly* misinterpreted and misrepresented by 1) at first, medieval scholasticism, 2) later on, by the Renaissance and Enlightenment guys. Also, as it tends to happen, quite many of the simplifications that have been made of these guys are the direct result of mistranslations, lawlz.Interesting trivia fact (which kinda agrees with an intuition I've been having for quite some time): it kinda seems that a lot of New Age-y notions, which employ terminology borrowed from bastardized Eastern religious and philosophical stuff, are pretty much an oversimplification of Plato and Aristotle, lol.
So, since I can't read ancient Greek, I'm now going to the ol' academic trick of "comparative study of as many translations in as many languages you know, fool!" of Aristotle's "Metaphysics", heheh. I also have someone to consult with.
"A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him." - A. Crowley
