Me and some friends used to chat about all kinds of stoner things and one topic was "bringing figures from history into the modern world". We ended up agreeing that Zhuge Liang was an absolute top tier candidate, someone who was far back enough that everything would be fascinating to them but intelligent and rational enough that he wouldn't just freak out (for long).
So we all got pretty into this very silly anime. Honestly, it's a lot of fun and they did his character justice for such an absurd premise.
Hmm I think quite a few of them would actually, absolutely hate it.
Plato, specifically, would probably be deeply suspicious of the idea that empirical measurement is our best route to truth. For Plato, sensory reality is the messy, inferior layer. Quantum mechanics, evolutionary contingency, and fuzzy biological categories would all be offensive to his craving for underlying ideal structure.
And good look breaking Aristotle out of underlying principal causes or four elements.
I think Pythagoras would be A-Ok, even a lot of "see! I told you!" right up until irrational numbers, planetary motion, or quantum dynamics.
78
u/Nothing-Is-Boring 17d ago
Me and some friends used to chat about all kinds of stoner things and one topic was "bringing figures from history into the modern world". We ended up agreeing that Zhuge Liang was an absolute top tier candidate, someone who was far back enough that everything would be fascinating to them but intelligent and rational enough that he wouldn't just freak out (for long).
So we all got pretty into this very silly anime. Honestly, it's a lot of fun and they did his character justice for such an absurd premise.