Plato, Aristotle and A2k

Who do you suppose I am a disciple of?

So share with us Dys, whose reasoning do you buy?

we've spoken on this a bit, but I would be interested to see it discussed here.
(he spoke, i mostly listened)

ima pull up a chair...

dear Kris, I don't think you follow under such silliness, You are one of the very few that are your self.

"reasoning" is an entirely different ball of wax, perhaps you missed my point that Plato/Aristotle do not represent reasoning.
Good Ole Dys

Fabulous!

<snort> (and laughing my head off)

Sweet Ole Bob

there's always the possibility finn will respond on topic, I'n not counting on it.

Not at all, I just thought that perhaps there are some philosophers whose reasoning you do respect and that you might share their identities with us.

If not, that's fine.

so the technique of seque is part of you reapartee. makes sense to me, avoidence is you defence.

Sorry to disappoint you Dys, but we can't all be disciples of Paul Feyerabend and Will Rogers like you are. You'll just have to settle for mere Socrates.

You seem to be reading far more into my comments than are intended.

Given your opening post I was anticipating that you would either explain why you have no use for classical greek philosophy or identify a philosophy with which you feel an affinity.

I'm not looking to trade jibes and so will move on to another thread.

dys, Aristotle was a brilliant, and clear thinker, Plato, not so much, and as clear as mud, Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, and Politics are monuments of intellectual thought.

This calls for a song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQycQ8DABvc

Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel.
And Whittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nieizsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shanty was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
And Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

I don't understand all these references to classical geek philosphers.

Aren't all philosophers geeks?

They're more like nerds. But to a flyover country anti-intellectual like Dys, what's the difference?

Well, that's exactly my p0int . . . those books have no plot, the characters are implausible and they'll never make a decent movie out of a one of them . . . who needs 'em, i say . . .