What our contemporary world needs more of: those who seek and focus on the Essential (". . . wahrhaft Wirklichen, Wissenschaftliche Erkenntniss und sittliche Darstellung der Idee.")—and not the show.
Our loss that Plato, Socrates and Aristotle are long gone.
@PlaidBarbarian Hyperfixation though — and important to note — does not guarantee correctness on a subject, do mind... else autists and OCDs would always be right.
Rusia invade Ucrania —que no es de la UE— y Europa entera se vuelca: dinero, armas, sanciones y la factura a cuenta nuestra. Marruecos agrede a España —que SÍ es de la UE— y esos mismos socios responden suspendiéndonos Schengen. Que alguien me explique la solidaridad europea, porque yo no la veo.
@omni_american The most shocking thing in all this, Jake, is that in social sciences academia (oh the irony: « Ἀκαδημία ») its attendants are unaware of Aristotle’s « ἀκρασία ».
@Stefftaving@epixiphus Briefly interrupting my self-imposed hiatus just to offer this: the manumission of the wise myths destroyed the transcendental: the negation—the ineffable fountain of wisdom.
It brought only empirical doctrine and a stale analytica posteriora intellect. Therapists and pills.
No matter what material wealth and possessions you accumulate during this life, when you die, all your stuff either becomes someone else's or gets thrown away.
Live accordingly.
@road__runna_@bccscl@omni_american Aristotle preempted all such hyperactive lot pretending to be the ineffable arbiters of truth.
They always existed; he just believed—correctly—they would never end.