Silence Is Better

On Thursday!  I need to read the first 2 books of Aristotle’s Physics and the beginning of Euclid’s Elements.  I’ve already begun reading the introduction (not assigned, because it’s not a Great Introductions program) to the Physics.  Lots of fascinating stuff.  For instance, Heidegger is quoted as saying that the Physics, not the MetaPhysics, is the most foundational work to Western Philosophy.  This makes some sense, because he begins with particulars of “what we see happening”, and works backwards to find a universal, bearing on what it means to exist at all.  He rides the middle way between others who started with universals, saying all things are in flux and always changing (Heraclitus) versus all things are one, thus never changing (Parmenides).  That middle way is what I hope to understand moreso in the near future.