Comments on: Is free will a mirage? http://www.dankohn.com/archives/282 Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. - A.J. Liebling Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:52:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Anonymous http://www.dankohn.com/archives/282#comment-19 Anonymous Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:08:04 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/282#comment-19 You are being perhaps a bit hard on poor Aristotle. It is true that Aristotelians were hostile to Galileo, but that's an instance of the phenomenon by which Marxists are not the best exemplars of what Marx thought. Compared to Plato et. al., Aristotle was quite the empiricist. To my mind, the largest breakthrough was when people stopped looking for universal truths in holy books, and started looking for them in the universe around them. You are being perhaps a bit hard on poor Aristotle. It is true that Aristotelians were hostile to Galileo, but that’s an instance of the phenomenon by which Marxists are not the best exemplars of what Marx thought. Compared to Plato et. al., Aristotle was quite the empiricist.

To my mind, the largest breakthrough was when people stopped looking for universal truths in holy books, and started looking for them in the universe around them.

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