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The Milesian philosophers were wrong about everything, but they asked the right questions, and for the first time sought natural explanations instead. — Luke Mueshaller, Pre-Socratics: A Painless Introduction
The limit of all wisdom is in me. — Epigram on Pythagoras, Boundaries, Duris
Although the twilight is darkening around Western philosophy, she is still just visible through the gloom. She had already been demoted from her role as theology’s handmaiden and queen of the sciences to a kind of antiquarian pursuit, like collecting moths in glass-covered frames or old jazz records.
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It is very curious or telling that Donna Zuckerberg would say that. Her brother is an admiring fan of Augustus and the Empire and styles himself thus. He even looks like a marble statue.
https://mashable.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-augustus-caesar-comparison
“Basically, through a really harsh approach, he established two hundred years of world peace.”
Yep, sounds like repackaged White Genocide to me!
Her thesis was about how white the classics are. Al Dante is probably the best name I have seen, BTW.
Yes, she was referring to the field but I was just wondering if she includes her brother because of his deep interest.
I don’t know, is it wrong for me to point out?, but the Diogenes who spoke to Alexander was the 3rd bc cynic philosopher, not Diogenes laertius who floruit in 3rd century ad. Also Eratosthenes the astronomer fell down the well, looking at the stars of course, not Thales who Diogenes says died of heat stroke.
I agree western philosophy is way better than eastern. But I think highly of the presocratics. Although they may have been wrong mechanistically about things, such as that the earth was flat or dome like, I think the presocratics grasped the philosophic essence of things in a way unparalleled in antiquity. For example they basically agreed on a materialistic model of the world where things were composed of atoms of elements. They thought there were only four or five, but right in principle. They thought all life came from a primitive embryo that left the water. Maybe they are a far way off from evolution by natural selection, but they had the gist thousands of years earlier than europe. Platonism is essentially a spiritual rebellion against their materialistic worldview.
I think the presocratics’ sort of reasoning and philosophic insight is similar to that of the science-fiction writer Jack Vance. He often has notions like that, perhaps unsupported mechanistically, but I bet capture philosophically the essence of the nature of things. “De Rerum Naturae!”
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