<HTML><HTML>In a message dated 10/27/04 9:50:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lbo-talk-request@lbo-talk.org writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">A lot of philosophy is explication of the everyday. There's nothing terribly "profound" in Aristotle or Wittgenstein. </BLOCKQUOTE> I don't know a lot about Wittgenstein, but Aristotle was terribly profound indeed. A few examples: "All men by nature desire to know. This is evident in the delight men take in their senses." Humans are political animals; anyone who isn't is either a beast or a god. The specific difference subsumes all genetic differences. Being is "pros hen" equivocity toward form. Got anything comparable from Derrida? </HTML>