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Jiang acknowledges the traditional explanation that Aristotle wrote his own books, the books were lost, and students later reassembled his thought from memory, while stressing that no original Aristotelian writing survives.
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Jiang acknowledges the traditional explanation that Aristotle wrote his own books, the books were lost, and students later reassembled his thought from memory, while stressing that no original Aristotelian writing survives.
"Okay. The answer is this. When you write something, you're actually manifesting your thought. Right? But your thought comes from your personality. Okay? So..."
"And his students had to reassemble his thinking. And they had to reassemble his thinking from their own memory. Okay? So, yeah, that's how..."
Aristotle is not treated here as the solitary genius behind Western reason.
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