You can't stop me, no one can. I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna be the one to cancel Aristotle. - ThreadSky

lastpositivist.bsky.social • 154 days ago

You can't stop me, no one can. I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna be the one to cancel Aristotle.

Who owns Aristotle? @edithmayhall.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/dont-...

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In Nigeria, schoolchildren used to have to sing a song that savagely reduced Aristotle to "a great teacher who taught Alexander"

benansell.bsky.social•153 days ago

I knew democracy would ineluctably lead to tyranny and now I have the proof

flyingletter.bsky.social•153 days ago

If Aristotle had been a door dash driver, I feel like he would have been the type to leave your burrito at the entrance instead of walking it up to your apartment

mrshanks.bsky.social•154 days ago

Nonsense. Next thing you will be saying that men and women have the same number of teeth!

rbnmckenna.bsky.social•154 days ago

did he say something dodgy about slavery maybe?

lastpositivist.bsky.social•154 days ago

No he was pretty good on that (non-Greeks don't deserve rights, he correctly observed).

michael-toftea.bsky.social•153 days ago

@angrycassie.bsky.social, he's at it again...

lastpositivist.bsky.social•153 days ago

Cancelling Aristotle? This is my first time!

michael-toftea.bsky.social•153 days ago

Cassie is the ultimate tribunal when it comes to Aristotle matters, I'll allow her to adjudicate and confirm

angrycassie.bsky.social•153 days ago

Liam v Aristotle is an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object

angrycassie.bsky.social•153 days ago

either way—seems above my pay-grade

lastpositivist.bsky.social•153 days ago

I was gonna disagree but then I saw you are still a grad student and, like, yes, fair. It is.

generativist.com•153 days ago

if anyone can do it,,,

sevakhusid.bsky.social•154 days ago

Honestly, some of his ideas are pretty outdated.
Flies having four legs? Pretty yikes

sevakhusid.bsky.social•154 days ago

Now the idea that some people are naturally fit to lead and others to be led, that I can get behind (after an account with 1k+ followers endorses it)

kkthomason.bsky.social•153 days ago

You will succeed where Martin Luther failed.

headoverhills.bsky.social•153 days ago

me, seeing this reply and frantically checking the original context to see if it's about Reformation or antisemitism lol

williameburns.bsky.social•153 days ago

And William of Ockham, and Bacon, and Galileo, and Descartes. . .

grundlegung.bsky.social•154 days ago

get his ass

nitergal3.bsky.social•153 days ago

It feels like at least half of the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment period of my AP Euro course was just learning about how Aristotle was wrong about everything.

kallastra.bsky.social•148 days ago

Finally, somebody did. I’ve had it up to here with his categorical bullshit

jjcksnn.bsky.social•153 days ago

*smugly, to a room full of undergraduates*

You know who was the first victim of CANCEL CULTURE?

[silence]

... Socrates. 😏

nataliebrender.bsky.social•154 days ago

Cancelled, the ghost of Aristotle returned with a new account of Eudaimonia 2.0.

kristenrosec.bsky.social•153 days ago

I know you hate earnest praise so I’m gonna say it: so glad you are on this website

lastpositivist.bsky.social•153 days ago

Wow you must *really* hate Aristotle!

kristenrosec.bsky.social•153 days ago

What can I say I’m just a simple modern feminazi who thinks all dead white men have it coming

lastpositivist.bsky.social•153 days ago

Awww if this was Twitter I would be like "retweeting to ruin your life" but here everyone probably just agrees.

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