The esteemed Mike quotes: "No more orgies! Enough with the orgies." Aristotle's speech to the UN.
Everyone who knew Aristotle knew he was a party guy. Big on knowledge. Big on fun. He put the jam in jamboree. Always had the best gal at the gala.
You see, Plato was the really wet blanket. Old Mister Painless Ideal Forms wanted to abolish marriage and private property, and put that schmear in the control of some Sourpuss Convention called the Philosopher Kings.
Aristotle knew better. He knew that if everything was permitted, nothing would be any fun. The forbidden fruit gets more attention, trees get pruned, people water their lawns, that kinda thing. Don't throw Socrates in that there brier patch.
Sure Aristotle dissed women, but you gotta remember those antifeminist comments followed his breakup with Betty Sue Themistocles. Running off with that rich descendant of Zeno of Citium ... you know it just turns guy's head wrong.
All of which is to say you can be, like Old Soc, the first to ask a question ... but it doesn't mean you can get the answer right the first time around the barn.
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