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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (37708)5/10/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
One could hardly have picked a passage better to illustrate Aristotle's ignorance of and prejudice against the young (or, possibly, terrible editing, although I admit that N. Ethics reads (at least in Greek) like a transcript.)

"Hence a young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end aimed at is not knowledge but action."

Now we only know of one young man to whom Aristotle taught politics.
The greatest young politician of the age: Alexander. Why in the name of truth did not Aristotle lecture on this experience -- something no one else could do -- rather than denigrate his young students (many of whom had helped him build the great data base of city-state constitutions which underlay his Politics?
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