In the first guest-post, Reb Lazer tells a story about Aristotle I wish he had sourced:
I'll be more specific: Aristotle, the successor to Socrates and Plato as the granddad of Greek philosophy, was once lying in the gutter in a drunken stupor, wallowing around in his own vomit, after a marathon eating and drinking binge. His students found him, and astounded, asked, "Teacher, where are the beauty and the esthetics, the teachings of our esteemed Aristotle?"Aristotle belched, then replied: "Ah, in the classroom, I'm the esteemed teacher. After class, I'm plain old Aristotle."Can anyone supply a reference. Google was no help. [Sidenote: Aren't the details great? 2000 years later and we not only know what Aristotle said, we know that he belched first. Unfortunately for me, this sort of specifity, 2000 years after the fact, makes me question the validity of the whole tale.]
[related Reb Lazer's Chanukah Message (Guest Post)]
2 comments:
Hey, I knew there were many more fans of Reb Brody out there! I'll place a link to you on my blog roll1 Toda Raba and Chag Samaech
Well they say that the great philosopher Bertrand Russel had an affair with a youngish student and she asked him how he a person who taught about the origins of western morality did not feel ashamed. He was supposed to have answered (tounge firmly in cheek) 'Ah! That was in the classroom; this is in a bedroom'.
I assume that is the origin of Lazer Brodies story.
After all they were both philosophers so one can get ones facts a little mixed up.
By the way Bertrand Russel wrote what is a fantastic book on The History of Western Civilisation. Its very readable. Lekovod Chanukah I have been reading about the Greek Philosophers. They really were an amazing bunch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
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