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I should have expected it, really... I've read other works that have come through the ages greatly changed from their original content, but those were directly religious works and this is not...
There is just something inherently distasteful about reading a translation of the writings of a Philosopher who lived over four hundred years before Christ and realizing that his arguments have been christianized over the ages, most likely due to the very same monks responsible for copying and preserving the works in the first place.
It also makes me very nevous about how many of his true insights may have been lost over the years to less detectable editing than sudden references to "God" as the maker of Forms.
There is just something inherently distasteful about reading a translation of the writings of a Philosopher who lived over four hundred years before Christ and realizing that his arguments have been christianized over the ages, most likely due to the very same monks responsible for copying and preserving the works in the first place.
It also makes me very nevous about how many of his true insights may have been lost over the years to less detectable editing than sudden references to "God" as the maker of Forms.
