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  • And I beleeve that scarce any thing can be more absurdly said in naturall Philosophy, than that which now is called Aristotles

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Mayr and I are apparently in agreement on Aristotles views concerning teleology.

    Against Darwinism 2009

  • Categorically defining how far down a bird or a duck is IC should be an area for natural philosophers/scientists but there aren't many Aristotles around now, most scientists seem to have been trained to think that progress will end and civilization will collapse if they allow for telic thoughts.

    Assessing Causality 2008

  • Categorically defining how far down a bird or a duck is IC should be an area for natural philosophers/scientists but there aren't many Aristotles around now, most scientists seem to have been trained to think that progress will end and civilization will collapse if they allow for telic thoughts.

    Assessing Causality 2008

  • De immensa Dei misericordia (1524) he had already attacked contemporary philosophers for neglecting the teaching of Christ in the Gospel and preferring to heed “your Platos and Aristotles

    Desiderius Erasmus Nauert, Charles 2008

  • The first clue as to why our modern day Aristotles of economics are not the oracles we sanction them to be, is that they deal with yesterday.

    Economists, Our New Philosopher Kings? 2008

  • Aristotles, they are not, but let's cast a slightly more discerning inspection their way, and toward the state of their art.

    ECONOMISTS, OUR NEW PHILOSOPHER KINGS? 2008

  • The first clue as to why our modern day Aristotles of economics are not the oracles we sanction them to be, is that they deal with yesterday.

    ECONOMISTS, OUR NEW PHILOSOPHER KINGS? 2008

  • Why are there no longer Anacreons, Aristotles, or Zeuxises at Athens?

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The value of such authority for identifying and gaining possession of all that was beautiful in human life, the evils befalling men who fled from its corrective application, and its troublesome and seemingly insoluble problems, were brilliantly presented in the writings of the great men of classical culture, its Hesiods, Solon the Lawgivers, Platos, and Aristotles.

    Lord Acton Tends to Corrupt 2007

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