Sarah is positively Aristotilean!

[samplegirl]

1) People behaving stupidly will be mocked.
2) People don’t like to be mocked.
3) People will stop behaving stupidly.

That didn’t pan out, did it?




Really, there are stupid people and there are lazy people and lookee here the Tea Party Convention got a two-fer.

Here's what I want to ask every insane wingnut who defends her: would you hire her, paying completely out of your own personal bank account, and for what? Because I wouldn't pay her two bucks an hour to fold my towels.

[aquart]

1. Have you ever noticed that Aristotle was pretty much wrong about everything?

[Recursion]

3. His embryology was good

In general, he was a good observational biologist. The Poetics is still more-or-less respected, too.

And I like his point that the opposite of a vice is not a virtue, but a different vice.

[aquart]

4. Ummmm, The Poetics not so much.

They basically describe the last play that was a hit. Not the next play. Shakespeare broke Aristotle up into tiny bits and fed him to wolves.

[Recursion]

2. That's more Skinner than Aristotle, isn't it?

Aristotle would say that people who are silly have been habituated to it.