This really is it. You can make some argument for Plato/Socrates (and they're certainly foundational and fun to read) but Aristotle formed the entire basis for what we call science and the knowability of the world. He was hilariously wrong about some things, but he firmly believed you COULD figure the shit out.
Oh thanks for reminding me:
Id say religion while affecting and moving around philosophy is still irrelevant in the grand scheme. Its an entirely human construct (You don't see animals praying) that will be wiped away by time just as quickly as anything else. Philosophy aims to understand the meaning of the universe and our existence on every level or perspective and religion is like a ball and chain when looked at it from that angle. I don't agree and I don't disagree with you. Religion has its place in experience, but it does not exist itself outside of existence and is subject to it like anything else we have defined. I think philosophy attempts to work out the complex problems by process of deduction to a degree we don't have anywhere else but in modern science which makes sense since people say science is the child of philosophy. Idk lmk if this is just word salad but I'm getting at something I cant quite put my finger on individually.
This is objectively correct since he was the only philosopher (not prophet) whose philosophy became the governing principles of a third of the Earth.
That is hard to measure. Might have had huge impact, we just fucking failed. We filled the black hole with politics and coomerism. Who knows, maybe those who weaponized Marx's work were very big fans or hater.
The author is Rousseau. If communists got one thing correct it’s calling the right reactionaries.
