Friday, January 28, 2011

Aristotle from Poetics Duex

After being told what Poetics actually is, I feel as though I made a bad judgement before. I took Poetics as basically just poems and maybe some song like writings but I did not understand what Poetics actually is. The entire reading now makes a little more sense. Also, earlier when I said that Aristotle only wrote stuff that was common sense, I was not trying to taking anything away from him that he is and was a brilliant mind. To come up with all that when at the time common sense was limited to what animals you shouldn't hunt because they are dangerous is a major feat. I personally, thoroughly enjoy reading Aristotle's works because even though it is common sense stuff to us now days he can make how you look at situations or ideas in a completely different way.

1 comment:

  1. You're right, Tucker. And I think it's a compliment when you say that what were outstanding brilliant discoveries for Aristotle are now common sense, because that indicates how important and far-seeing Aristotle really was.

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