Old stuff I still knowOur Ginger Fuhrer says that he could still code up a simple game idea in Amstrad Basic, while I'm your man if you ever need to rebuild the suspension on an Austin Allegro (1750 Equipe version). This stuff doesn't leave your mind - tell us about obsolete talents you still have.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 17:04)
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The Republic has its moments,but in my opinion Plato is more important for what he inspired than for anything that he did in his own right. A lot of important stuff can be traced back to him, and he's the earliest philosopher from whom we have anything like a significant body of work - but Aristotle is a much more coherent thinker on the whole.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:36,
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Generally my philosophy reading is pretty poorand overly influenced by whether Bertrand Russell had anything nice to say about them in the History of Western Philosophy...
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prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Fri 1 Jul 2011, 10:45,
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I disagree...... well, actually, i don't. What you said there was spot on. But I'd still recommend Plato over Aristotle: they've both been studied, picked apart, put back together, and essentially superseded over the last ~2400 years; but Plato has the advantage of actually being a relatively enjoyable read for the amateur philosopher. Aristotle is about as fun as reading someone's lecture notes.
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