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I'm not triggered by him not reading Aristotle, I'm triggered by his apparent faith in the scientific method coupled with his complete disregard for it. But there was obvious value to reading the classics, it imparted a shared language that was linked by a chain to artists and poets and writers going back centuries, birthing the egregore that resides at the foundation of the edifice of Western civilisation. There's almost always a better way to say something, and there isn't a generation that passes without someone writing a better take on the ideas of one or more of the great books. But you can always go back to the classics, and that's immensely valuable. If everything falls apart tomorrow you will always know you can find Plato, Herodotus, Shakespeare and Bacon and Milton somewhere nearby. Probably check retirement homes these days though. TLDR I'm not saying read the classics, I'm saying if you want to be a serious person who does things right and follows the scientific method, then you absolutely should read the original source, and if that happens to be a classic, then read the classic.
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