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To: Solon who wrote (5524)	5/22/2010 10:21:24 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Thanks, now you've acknowledged a freethinker who said worse things about women than Aquinas did, hypocrite. BTW, I've had my fill of humiliating you for this morning. I'll leave you to stew in it now.

To: Solon who wrote (5524)	5/22/2010 3:27:40 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Aristotle - "If there is a philosophical Atlas who carries the whole of Western civilization on his shoulders, it is Aristotle. He has been opposed, misinterpreted, misrepresented, and—like an axiom—used by his enemies in the very act of denying him. Whatever intellectual progress men have achieved rests on his achievements. Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history’s brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind. The Aristotelian revival of the thirteenth century brought men to the Renaissance. The intellectual counter-revolution turned them back toward the cave of his antipode: Plato. There is only one fundamental issue in philosophy: the cognitive efficacy of man’s mind. The conflict of Aristotle versus Plato is the conflict of reason versus mysticism. It was Plato who formulated most of philosophy’s basic questions—and doubts. It was Aristotle who laid the foundation for most of the answers. Thereafter, the record of their duel is the record of man’s long struggle to deny and surrender or to uphold and assert the validity of his particular mode of consciousness." Review of J.H. Randall’s Aristotle, The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1963, 18 aynrandlexicon.com