For each thing in specific, someone must be educated to one must be educated about everything.” For it is similar to expect a mathematician to speak persuasively or for an orator to furnish clear proofs!Įach person judges well what they know and is thus a good critic of those things. “It is right that we ask to accept each of the things which are said in the same way: for it is the mark of an educated person to search for the same kind of clarity in each topic to the extent that the nature of the matter accepts it. Some of the content there is interesting and accurate (about the idea of the fake quotation, not the actual bit) other parts are like Ancient Aliens crazy.Īristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1 1094a24-1095a As a side note, there is an interesting–by which I mean crazy–discussion of what this fake quote might mean on Quora. But since it stands so early at the beginning of the Ethics, I suspect that there was a kind of smash and run search for an authoritative sounding quotation. The density of the passage provides some grounds for why it may have been (over)simplified. They suggest that it is a misunderstanding of Nicomachean Ethics 1094b24. Bennion in his Religion and the Pursuit of Truth 1989, 52). According to wikiquote, this was first attributed to Aristotle by Lowell L. Like many of the fake-istotle quotes, this one can be googled out of existence in about 5 seconds. This has been bouncing around lately with the hashtag #Aristotle Oh, Internet, why do you abuse Aristotle so?
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