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The Aristotelian Truce - An 800-Year-Old Compromise and the Crisis it Created
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Aristotle’s works re-entered Western Europe through Arabic translations. For the first time in nearly a thousand years, European scholars had access to a systematic framework for empirical reasoning, natural philosophy, and logic grounded in observation rather than revelation. It was electrifying — and immediately threatening. The Catholic Church faced a crisis. Aristotle’s empiricism was incompatible with theological authority. If the
Lawrence Sheraton
Apr 158 min read


Our Greatest Existential Threat
What is our greatest existential threat? What events or cause/effect scenarios could lead to the end of humanity's existence on Earth? Outside of the scope of astrological events, think asteroids, solar decay, etc., what human caused events could destroy us as a species? The idea that the greatest existential threat to humanity is human activity has been with us for a while. He's an image and a pity statement from a poster created by Walter Kelly in 1970 for the first Earth
Lawrence Sheraton
Jul 22, 20187 min read
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