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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (4366)	5/5/2000 7:49:00 PM
From: The Barracuda™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

Not me, but Aristotle does. Aristotle rejected Plato's "form of the Good" and his philosopher kings. Philosopher kings are today's dictators and government regulators. Plato is the father of modern dictatorship. Aristotle said that this world is REAL as opposed to Plato's claim that the world of our senses, which we perceive, is just an essence of the "real world" of which only philosopher kings can understand. If you pointed at a rock and asked, "what is the meaning of that rock?" Aristotle would say "huh?" "That rock just is." "That rock is a fact of reality that you perceive, facts are facts- they just are." "They exist whether you perceive them or not." Plato would say, "that rock isn't real, what you think you see is only an essence of what I know to be an the true reality, which is in heaven." Plato rejects the senses and that the mind's understanding of the information that they provide. Aristotle says, "rubbish." "If the mind cannot perceive reality we'd all be dead." Aristotle says the world is knowable by the mind of man. Since the mind is the tool to understand reality the mind must be free to think, to reason. If life is the value, men must be free to think. The only tool man has for survival is his mind. He must think and reason to live. This is the reason that a capitalist society is the moral and socialist evil. Reference to property rights is the only way to resolve disputes amongst men. If there are no property rights then there is only the rule of the gun and its consequence-death.