The cultural differences—the object-level information that Aristotle is lacking—are significant. This is true even if you are talking about things that differ from both of you by more than your difference to Aristotle.
Clearly. But whatever they are, they should still be represented, and there may be similarly wild things in the outlying areas of their worldview—and if I can help them reach it I will. In my experience it’s the ideas in the hinterlands that are the way out of the problems of our time, regardless what our time is—merely seeing that our worldview has outliers, and the overton window is limiting us in one area is usually enough to see that we’re limited elsewhere, too.
The cultural differences—the object-level information that Aristotle is lacking—are significant. This is true even if you are talking about things that differ from both of you by more than your difference to Aristotle.
Clearly. But whatever they are, they should still be represented, and there may be similarly wild things in the outlying areas of their worldview—and if I can help them reach it I will. In my experience it’s the ideas in the hinterlands that are the way out of the problems of our time, regardless what our time is—merely seeing that our worldview has outliers, and the overton window is limiting us in one area is usually enough to see that we’re limited elsewhere, too.