Aristotle: thought for the day
Neither in moral nor in mathematical science is the knowledge of first principles reached by logical means: it is virtue, whether natural or acquired by habituation, that enables us to think rightly about the first principle. - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Bk VII.
These observations of Aristotle are reinforced by the book "The MASTER and his EMISSARY: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World" by Iain McGilchrist. I will bring it to you on my next visit.
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