Aristotle

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Aristotle, those guys, they did not view education as shoving content.

They even said that.

Right.

Socrates, for those who don't know, was one of ancient Greece's most influential philosophers.

With his interrogative nature, he stood alongside people like Plato and Aristotle and Epicurus as one of the great minds of the ancient world.

Plato even issued a statement in his defense.

And at the age of 70, Socrates was brought to trial and charged with impiety, or a lack of reverence for the Greek gods, as well as corrupting the Athenian youth, allegedly.

There are many things in Meru Nebuchad that seem to contradict Gemara.

The Rambam constantly quotes from Aristotle.

It seems to be Geisha ideas making their way.

And we're going to see that The Rajb himself respected the Rambam and therefore maybe it's like, you know, for the Rambam maybe these ideas are okay.

Their main tie was against the philosophy.

I just want to clarify.

Based on this letter, which is only an excerpt, but it could be that the Rajbe felt, you know, if the Rambam wants to dabble in Aristotle, for him it's going to work, but not for the masses.

As is a well-known story I've said before, that Semach Tzedek once gathered his children around him, and he said, none of you should learn Meir Nebuchadnezzar.

You see, unlike the real world where humans don't ever change, in stories, you have to have a character reach a breaking point and have a crisis so that we can root for them to come back from it.

It's been around since, like, Aristotle or something.

And somehow we're still doing it today.

Tom Hanks will now break down crying for a full minute, as if to prove my point about the predictability of storytelling tropes.

I want to.

So it's like, why not have your own intimate experience with Plato and Aristotle and intimacy, not on this low Freudian nonsense.

It's the expansion of wanting to know and understand the many intricacies of what's going on in the world that we live in.

What is going on? What is reality? What am I? What does it mean to be? And what is being itself? Welcome

And I think that's why understanding the issues and talking about it in this kind of manner and understanding what is it when the Renaissance, what is the Renaissance mind? You know, like, what does that even mean? And I think it's really important to know throughout history, we've had many different renaissances and the big one we all think about was the period of the Renaissance in Italy and that timeframe in Europe and how important it was.

It was an unveiling of knowledge and wisdom from past years as you get a collective of individuals exploding with genius with their daimon, this interconnection that they could then tap into something larger than themselves to be able to create beautiful art and sacredness, that thing that we're truly trying to get back into our lives, to reawaken into our lives.

And so it's to then ask the question, what does it matter? And it matters because in the Renaissance period, right, we get Marsilio Ficino and Pico de Merindola, right? These characters who are transcribing Plato's writings and Aristotle's writings, but then they say, hey, just wait, let's actually first work on the thrice great Hermes Trismegistus and let's transcribe his work so then people can read it.

And in the 1500s, the explosion of this information through time, there were then charlatans at that time frame, but you could then read the work and then do the work and we have their works from here on out.

So what does deficiency in humility look like? And what does excess look like? And how does wisdom help students find the golden mean?

I love the insight of Aristotle on the deficiencies and excesses of these vices.

The deficiency of humility or the lack of humility, I would say, is arrogance.

It's pride.

And that's where wisdom leads us.

That's where that golden mean can be accomplished.

And I would argue to Aristotle or anybody else that apart from the gospel, you can't get to that golden mean because you're going to have an inaccurate view of yourself.

Jonathan, I think this is all really helpful because it helps us understand we're not looking at like window dressing on our kids or even on ourselves to figure this out.

You can say, well, what did she just say? And I think that it's just part of an ongoing, since the days of the scribes, effort to be able to record things because our memory fails.

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That is the whole goal.

As the paper points out, quoting Aristotle, excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Man, that reframes excellence entirely.

It's not a momentary flash of brilliance.

Anatomically, we're the same.

Now, if we jump forward to the great thinkers, such as Aristotle, Plato, and Marcus Aurelius, who lived just 3,000 years ago or so, it's the same.

Their intellectual capabilities were the same as ours.

They could think and reason the same as we can.