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if you are not attentive to what he's saying.
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You must learn to read closely.
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What was Aristotle saying?
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In the first place, it's important that we avoid,
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I think, two equally unhelpful ways of responding to this.
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The first, which one finds among many modern-day commentators,
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many kind of neo-Aristotelians, we might call them,
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is to simply avert our eyes
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from the harsh, unappealing aspects of Aristotle's thought
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and proceed as if he never actually said
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or meant such things.
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We need to avoid the temptation,