Aristotle would say his popularity rests on the opposite :-), on the people who refuse to live like grazing animals. His whole point was that humans have a unique capacity for reason and excellence that most of us never fully use. The fact that his ideas are still being read and debated 2,400 years later suggests there are more of those people than we might think!
Cities, in those days, were islands of culture, crucibles of creativity, surrounded, outside a hinterland of grain farming villages, by vast, snarling hordes of super-conservative herders of goats, sheep and cattle. (and reindeer).
The distrusted each other profoundly.
I'll leave you to join the dots.
Intterestingly, that war, 7000 years-long that we know of, or perhaps 6000, or maybe much, much longer, nobody knows, had its last coda in Iran about a century ago.
It's noticeable that you chose not to use Eudomania as membership bait.
There would be few takers?
Ariatotle's popularity rests on the appreciation of grazing animals?
Aristotle would say his popularity rests on the opposite :-), on the people who refuse to live like grazing animals. His whole point was that humans have a unique capacity for reason and excellence that most of us never fully use. The fact that his ideas are still being read and debated 2,400 years later suggests there are more of those people than we might think!
my point exactly, Doctor.
The context is easy to forget.
Cities, in those days, were islands of culture, crucibles of creativity, surrounded, outside a hinterland of grain farming villages, by vast, snarling hordes of super-conservative herders of goats, sheep and cattle. (and reindeer).
The distrusted each other profoundly.
I'll leave you to join the dots.
Intterestingly, that war, 7000 years-long that we know of, or perhaps 6000, or maybe much, much longer, nobody knows, had its last coda in Iran about a century ago.
The herders came to town and sacked the city.
This ended with the invention of machine-guns