Advanced technological civilisations would be impossible without an Aristotle and the host of haphazard historical circumstance that preserved his thought through the ages. Aristotle was the first real scientist. That's because he assumed that in order to understand the world you must observe it, and that all knowledge comes from...
Month: February 2014
What? For a phantom we have suffered?
Herodotus says that the gods had the real Helen whisked away and hidden safely in Egypt, while giving a doppelgänger of hers to Paris. That the Trojans and the Greeks had fought over a ghost. Euripides in his tragedy "Helen" picks ups this version of the story and weaves a...