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just a thought
Topic Started: Apr 20 2006, 07:46 PM (219 Views)
pianojerome
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HOLY CARP!!!
We like to romanticize all of the ancient Greek philosophers, like Plato and Aristotle, and quote them, and ponder their words.

But really, if you think about it, they were pretty misguided about a lot of things... like science, for example... about things which were so intricately involved in their philosophical discourse.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
I disagree that they were misguided -- they were guided by human reason. They were of course wrong about a lot of physical things: things we can now only know with the developments of technology such as the microscope. But their basic structure of understanding the physical world has withstood the test of time, and this was based on intuition, observable oorrespondances and analogous thinking, and reason.

There is always the danger that philosophy and science try to answer questions outside the limits of their respective competencies. But when the observable data corresponds it is neigh impossible to not draw the logical inference. Only because technology has advanced to the point of raising questions about previously accepted conclusion does philosophy then need to reconsider its positions that were based on outmoded or superseded observations. That, however, does not call the whole project into suspicion -- it is very much part of the philosophical act in itself to do so.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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schindler
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I was going to say the same thing, Ivory, but I deleted my original post after I read yours. There's no way I can out two-bit word you. . . :P
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