[MD] on aristotle

[Ian Glendinning]

You must surely have confused Aristotle with Socrates in your original
question Marsha ?

Anything attributed to Socrates was written by Plato (and others)
Aristotle was his own man (student of Plato) and wrote himself
extensively (Poetics, Nicomachean Ethics, etc ...) - a lot more than
"notes".

Most of what we have from either (Plato or Aristotle) was preserved
through the studies and writings (and translations into Arabic and
then Latin) of Islamist scholars, but of course the (preserved) Greek
originals have also been translated many times since - ask Pirsig
about McKeon for example ;-)

I wouldn't be surprised if there are translations from the original
Greek in the languages of Hindu, Buddhist and other oriental cultures
available if you look, but no doubt all the ones "we" read have come
from the Abrahamic (Judaism, Christian, Islamic) and atheistic
cultures.

Now what was your question again ?
Ian


On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:23 PM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> Adrie,
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> There is a difference between ancient Greek and modern Greek.  Is you
> wife a philologist?  Has Turkey a different religion than either Islamic,
> Jewish or Christian, because I understand all three to be considered of the
> Abrahamic traditions?   The Pheadrus that I've read was written by Plato.
> What version of the Pheadrus by Aristotle are you referencing?
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> On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:21 AM, ADRIE KINTZIGER wrote:
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>> Actually, my wife is Turkish, capable of reading Greec, and because of her
>> being Islamic,she is not really owning an Abrahamic filter.
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>> But the rest is correct, Aristotle left nothing behind,The Phaedrus was
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>> written down,and Socrates was actually a clown.
>> Pirsig never wrote a book,he was just sailing all the time,inventing
>> monisms.
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>> If you go on like this , Marsha, i will loose my respect for you.
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>> 2011/3/29 MarshaV <valkyr at att.net>
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>>> It is my understanding that we have no written works composed by Aristotle.
>>> We do have notes of his lectures composed by others.  In addition, even if
>>> you were a philologist and could read these original notes in the ancient
>>> Greek language, I doubt that the connotations associated with these works
>>> having been for centuries filtered through the Abrahamic traditions could be
>>> removed from your consciousness.
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