Happy Spring everyone. Here is a story I've heard, and a skeptical comment I'd like to insert into it.
All very philosophical.
As readers of this blog probably know, Aristotle was well-connected with the royal family of Macedonia. At one point in his life runs the story, while he was still spending most of his time in Athens, hostility toward him became very high, because Macedonia was a foreign and hostile power.
So, fearing arrest, Aristotle left town, going to take up permanent residence in Macedonia.
He is supposed to have said to Athenians on his way out of the gate, “I will not stay, and allow this city to sin once more against philosophy.”
Personally, I doubt he said that. A later scribe must have thought it would have been the right thing for him to say at the moment.
And I think that if he DID say that, he probably muttered to himself under his breath, “especially not on ME.”
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