Aristotelian Optimism vs. Platonic Decadence

In Defense of The Intellectual Middle Class

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, Look! This is something new? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)

All people by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for eve…