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Saving ta legomena: Aristotle and the history of philosophy.(Critical essay)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20061201
Author:Long, Christopher P.

And it is just to feel gratitude not only to those whose opinions one shares, but even to those whose pronouncements were more superficial, for they too contributed something, since before us they exercised the active condition [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] of thinking.--Metaphysics 1.2.993b11-15

LET US BEGIN WITH ARISTOTLE as Aristotle so often begins with us: by attending carefully to the words of the ancients. Xenophanes, who Aristotle so generously claims "made nothing clear," (1) nevertheless gives voice to the hope and tragedy of the human condition: "But from the ...

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