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Reading Aristotle
•
Aristotle
:
Politics,
Book I <
https://
delong.typepad.com/fi les/aristotle-politics-book-
i.pd
f
>
•
Aristoteles son of Nikomachus of Stagira…
•
-384 Stagira to -322 Euboea
•
Lyceum, Peripatetic
•
THE Philosopher: “the Master… of those who
know”
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1650 years after his death, Aristotle’s is the most
powerful intellectual name
that Dante can
conjure
with
•
Deepest thinker, trying hard to get it right, most
respected intellectual landmark for millennia
•
But you are going to hit Aristotle and think: “this is
weird”—and a lot of it is weird, and even repugnant
Dante and Virgil meet the past’s great thinkers
in Hell’s Limbo
Gustave Dore
Dante Alighieri
(1320):
Inferno
:
Poi ch'innalzai un poco più le ciglia,
vidi
i
l maestro di color che sanno
seder tra fi losofi ca famiglia.
When I had lifted up my brows a little,
The Master I beheld of those who know,
Sit with his philosophic family.
All gaze upon him, and all do him honour.
There I beheld both Socrates and Plato,
Who nearer him before the others stand
…
J. Bradford DeLong
brad.delong@gmail.com
2020-01-06
https://tinyurl.com/dl-2020-01-06a
