Comments by "" (@tomrhodes1629) on "Aristotle: History's Most Influential Thinker" video.

  1. Good form is a good thing. But MEANING is EVERYTHING. The West worships Plato and Aristotle, primarily because they had huge intellects and they wrote so much that has survived. However, their inordinate influence has done much to stultify the western mind and bury the deepest of truths, as I explain in my 2013 book "The Holy Grail is Found." The Golden Age of REASON in ancient Greece actually occurred through the pre-Socratics, with Socrates at the apex....and a downward turn began with Plato, but was fully consummated by his student Aristotle, as I explain in my book. Those of us who leave Plato and Aristotle alone to their complex dissections and return to the truly rational ideas that are the actual foundation of world (not just Western) philosophy - we find truths that range from the cure for cancer to the Meaning of Life, as my book illustrates.
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  2. Actually, Aristotle's influence has done much to stultify the western mind and bury the deepest of truths, as I explain in my 2013 book "The Holy Grail is Found." The Golden Age of REASON in ancient Greece actually occurred through the pre-Socratics, with Socrates at the apex....and a downward turn began with Plato, but was fully consummated by his student Aristotle, as I explain in my book. Those of us who leave Plato and Aristotle alone to their complex dissections and return to the ideas that are the actual foundation of world (not just Western) philosophy - we find truths that range from the cure for cancer to the Meaning of Life, as my book illustrates.
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