
EP. 08 The Classics
Uncancelled History
Aristotle's the Moment of Recognition of Truth
I think one of the things I took from Aristotle which made enormous impression of my life was the poetics of an agnoresis. And it seems to me reading your books and hearing your description both of your own intellectual journey and discovery and that of your father that like many others, there's a version of this that occurred. That there was a moment of a recognition of truth or as I've sometimes put it catching up with a truth that was always waiting for you. And that this is one of the most thrilling things that can happen in a human life.
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