RE: The monopoly manual and holy books.
November 17, 2014 at 1:12 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2014 at 1:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 16, 2014 at 10:39 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Plato got the "question everything" idea right. But he also postulated the idea of through that mere questioning you could come up with the "essence" of something. He had no way of understanding the importance of control groups and testing and falsification. Religious and political philosophies took that idea of "essence" and ran with it.Kinda....he had -some- way of understanding the importance of those things (*though not nearly so much as we do now) in that the pre-socratics (many of which include those luminaries that we now see as the "fathers of science") both predated him and were, at the back end, contemporaneous with him and they -did- advance those points. Thales for example, put forward many a hypothesis and Democritus was so hated by Plato that he wished all his works burned, so the legend goes. Plato, it seems, was familiar with the embryo of science and simply thought that he had a better way of determining truth.
Now, as to why culture gravitated toward Plato for so long...it;s a hell of alot more convenient to think about shit than it is to run experiments or advance a hypothesis. And since, when thinking about shit, you can set the initial conditions- you can make your statement lead wherever you want it to. The political utility is to obvious to miss.
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