Aristotle was a great philosopher, but like all of us he was blind to some of the worst prejudices of his own time--as the strip at the bottom points out. He should never have been exalted as THE Philosopher. No human will ever be perfectly was, and right about everything.
But he was right to be impatient with Zeno. (Diogenes was too, it was Zeno he was talking to when he said "solvitur ambulando," it is solved by walking.)
Its funny to me how we can still admire people when they are so flawed like in the second comic. It is a skill that people seem to have lost these days.
ReplyDeleteZeno believes he knows the answer to π the way he keeps reducing statements.
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