I’m excited. I haven’t read Aristotle in 25 years, but I pulled down The Metaphysics and Randall’s “Aristotle” this morning, because for the book I’m pre-writing, I want to remember what he says about genera and species. In particular, I’m curious whether his nested view of categories explicitly reflects the way political entities are nested: animal contains human the way Greece contains Athens.

I thumbed through both books for about two minutes after blowing the dust off of them, and had a flash of why I used to love Aristotle. He believed that careful thought could understand the world, which implies that the world is orderly and beautiful, and that language, thought, action and world all could be aligned perfectly.

If only I can clear out enough spam to make room for beginning to read him again.

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