Thursday, May 6, 2010

why i believe that aristotle is not a hippie

i would like to start by saying that in no way is this entry anti-hippie. I started to think about people who had radical ideas of our recent history and an interesting thought came to me: what would Aristotle have been like, let alone, what would he have said about the hippies. Aristotle's idea that love is intertwined with truth it about as close as his beliefs get to the free lovin spirit. He supports the idea of political science as the ultimate outcome of a good acting person. The hippies are not known for liking political systems even if it was towards the human process. even the idea of taking "mind expanding" drugs for the hippies is not how Aristotle would want people to see the divine, he would rather people see it in their actions driving toward the good, the ideas of meditation and peace are not the one's that Aristotle would enjoy as he likes action and the pushing of ideas. The last thought i had of this nature was would Aristotle think the hippies are happy as they give free love and are not a benefit to his society and protest the government, I say that he would believe them to live an empty life. If only he was born in the 1960's

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