Mistaken identity

十一月 9, 2007

The detail from Michelangelo's School of Athens above the caption "Aristotle: posited the existence of a sixth sense" (Books, November 2) shows not Aristotle, but Plato pointing upwards to his realm of transcendental "Forms".

Aristotle's idea of an "inner touch" conforms to the thorough-going immanent naturalism represented by Michelangelo's depiction of him with a palm-down gesture.

Leo Pilkington, London SW8.

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