[lit-ideas] Re: The Aristotelian Society
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:36:04 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 6/14/2012 4:17:57 P.M. UTC-02,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
is there a Plato Society?
McEvoy got my point perfectly. I meant,
"how many other societies, founded in the 1870s-1880s -- after the name of
a famous Greek philosopher?". Surely a Thales Society would be obtuse.
From wiki:
"to constitute a society of about twenty and to include ladies; the society
to meet fortnightly, on Mondays at 8 o'clock, at the rooms of the Spelling
Reform Association"
Note that this is not the *Aristotle* Society, so that McEvoy's question,
>is there a Plato Society?
is perhaps a red herring (metaphorically speaking).
And so on.
Note that, while Popper deemed Plato superior to Aristotle, yet he (Popper,
not Plato nor Aristotle) cared to preside the Aristotelian Society (rather
than found an alternative Platonic Society to preside).
Note, also, that in Greek, and Latin, the adj. for "Aristotle" would be
"Aristotelic" rather than "Aristotelian". Thus, knowing the Brits -- and their
love for obscure affixes -- I should perhaps not bee surprised if they
would have come up with a London-based fornightly meeting "Platonian Society
(for the Unsystematic Study of Philosophy)".
It is CAMBRIDGE that was strong in Plato (the "Cambridge Platonists", with
Cudworth). Oxford was, is, and will be forever Aristotelian. (This actually
irritated Hobbes: "That is NOT Philosophy; it is Aristotelity")
Cheers,
Speranza
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