I´m very sorry John for my though response. But there are a lot of things to consider in the case and to extract a phrase from its context is not fair play. Just that.
2013/9/8 Alberto G. Corona <agocor...@gmail.com> > Feyerabend made the best analysis of the endavour of Galileo in his fight > for the truth. No other presented the intellectual work of Galileo in his > gigantic intelectual dimension that was, more even than the case of > Einstenin and Feyerabend presented it as no one before. Having studied and > put clear all the reasoning steps of Galileo in relation with their > Aristotelian opponents and extracted invaluable lessons for the methodology > of science I think that Feyerabend deserve some respect , you idiot. Please > abstain from insults and disqualifications unless you have enough knowledge > of the case and present your arguments. > > > 2013/9/8 John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> > >> >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:48 PM, <spudboy...@aol.com> wrote: >> >> >> > Yes, your reading Feyerabend, suggests that [...] >>> >> >> Speaking of things that give philosophy a bad name consider these words >> of wisdom from Feyerabend: >> >> "The church at the time of Galileo was much more faithful to reason than >> Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social >> consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was >> rational and just, and revisionism can be legitimized solely for motives of >> political opportunism." >> >> No doubt there are those on this list who will try to make excuses for >> the above moronic statement, but the fact remains that most professional >> philosophers think any provocative statement can make them stand out no >> matter how dimwitted it is. >> >> John K Clark >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Alberto. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
