On Aristotle, Cake and the Many Ways of Knowing

To understand knowledge, we need to understand what it is for

Will Buckingham

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Aristotle at his writing desk. Miniature in the manuscript Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, 1457. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Aristotle is one of the most influential of all philosophers in the Greek tradition. He was Plato’s most famous student, but he ended up rejecting many of Plato’s central ideas, in particular his theory of forms. And he was a formative influence not only on the philosophical…

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Will Buckingham

Writer & philosopher. PhD. Stories & ideas to make the world a better place. HELLO, STRANGER (Granta 2021): BBC R4 Book of the Week. Twitter @willbuckingham