[quidnunc]

Jason Kauppinen wrote:How about Aristotle's Organon?

What about it?

Jason Kauppinen wrote: Or would you prefer to have statesmen who make decisions based on having a soothsayer cut open a chicken and do an entrail reading?

This is a specious argument and you know it.

Allow me to bring it down to an even more basic level.

Which ancient philosophers do you take into account before you decide which car to buy or how to present a proposal to your boss?

[Jason Kauppinen]

"This is a specious argument and you know it.

Allow me to bring it down to an even more basic level.

Which ancient philosophers do you take into account before you decide which car to buy or how to present a proposal to your boss?"

Allow me to bring it down to an even more basic level.

Who's work are you using and building upon when you demand non-specious arguments, and use them to prove your points?

[inquest]

Which ancient philosophers do you take into account before you decide which car to buy or how to present a proposal to your boss?

Those are concerns of a far more specific and secondary nature; as such it's entirely proper to consult experience local to both time and place. Learning about the basic foundations of human nature, and about how to apply them, is an inquiry of a primary and general nature; as such one should look over a somewhat wider compass in order to pursue it.