Comments on: Made-up Aristotle quote?

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:59:03 +0000

but might have actually come from a lesser known coach.

By: GCBWI

GCBWI — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:53:59 +0000

Are you sure Mark Twain didn’t say that? i vaguely remember reading that when quotes are misattributed, Mark Twain is a favorite…

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:02:20 +0000

-Aristotle, per Wikipedia

By: locomotivebreath1901

locomotivebreath1901 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:51:56 +0000

The best known student of Aristotle’s philosophy was Alexander the Great. Hardly a champion of individual liberty & God-given rights.

And I could be wrong, but I believe that very little of Aristotle’s original works exist, outside of what his students wrote down.

The Greeks were concerned with enlightenment, and practically invented the art of philosophy – ontology & epistemology with a good dose of mathematics and geometry thrown in just to epicurean the ladies horizontal at the parthenon Saturday night.

This whole ‘quote’ smacks of convenient modern era narrative: personal rights; absolute; good health; provide?

Individual liberty & God-given rights were concepts not widely regarded in society or law until many, many centuries later during the Enlightenment era. And providing health is certainly a concept only come to fruition with the advent of 20th century techno-wonders.

Gotta luv me some ol’ dead guys for wisdom, though. They know just what to demagogue from the grave.

By: JLenardDetroit

JLenardDetroit — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:56:24 +0000

but dismissed it as me being mistaken…. They probably ran with it or the “thought” originated there and began to make its way into the normal Lefty-loon Talking Points.

Lefties: “FACTS! We don’t need no stinkin’ FACTS!”
(of course they don’t say that, they just think it – all that Truthiness)