“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Aristotle

Thanks to Graham Harman's many recent posts on Aristotle (howsoever oblique) I started reading the Physics. Very very good. Should be required reading for scientists--that'll learn 'em (atomists and Star Trekky matter deevoid of form, Captain, people alike). And very funny. The stuff about being pale and educated...

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