artrat
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04 Jan 2012, 10:49 pm
mar00 wrote:
artrat wrote:
mar00 wrote:
And that's why all this praise for Aristotle and all other 'great men who contributed to our society' goes down the toilet.
If it wasn't for one it would be for another.
If it wasn't for one it would be for another.
You are very wrong. It would be ignorant to discredit the great contributions of all sexist males throughout history.
Aristotle was a brilliant in the fields of science,philosophy,metaphysics and logic. His inferior views of women were not so brilliant.
You can tell everything about a Man by the way he treats Women.
If it wasn't for them, some great woman would have done the same job. Some other gifted individual would figure things out, sooner or later.
I do not wish to discredit anyone but rather to point out that humans have a tendency to aggrandize certain historical personas.
Thought is independent of whoever got a glimpse of it 'first'.
I misinterpreted what you originally said as sarcasm .
I agree that someone else would have thought of every thought in history. I actually thought many of the same thoughts as some male philosophers did when I was a small child.
