(August 17, 2023 at 7:43 am)polymath257 Wrote:(August 16, 2023 at 8:59 pm)Fireball Wrote: You know, I wouldn't be able to quote Aquinas with a straight face. He was either crazy or the best car salesman ever. Bowling over the ignorant with bullshit was easy in the early Catholic church.
Except that it wasn't the early Catholic church. There was about as much time between Augustine and Aquinas as between Aquinas and us.
And, perhaps not coincidentally, between Augustine and Aristotle. Perhaps every four hundred years a philosopher whose name begins with the letter "A" spouts this "altruism is evil, greed is good" crap.
Oh, wait....