I've yet to read all of that wordpress site though.ĮDIT: Also, Strato of Lampsacus's name became popular when he was compared to the views of Spinoza. They then took the Greek myth of Talos, adapted it to a naturalistic philosophy (and our concepts of modern technology) and penned some passages from their new Straton of Stageira. It seems likely that they used Strato of Lampsacus as one of the bases for Straton of Stageira, borrowing the birth city of his tutor Aristotle, to create a unique, fictional character they could build on. Strato studied natural science, and largely neglected moral philosophies. He built on Aristotle's teachings and made some pretty impressive observations for his time. He was a philosopher, and a student of Aristotle. There were a few people named Straton in history. It is reasonable to assume that Wikipedia and Google, despite all of their usefulness are not omniscient, but when search queries of several libraries maintained by Universities turn nothing, then it looks really suspicious.Īll in all, it looks like a somewhat elaborate hoax, does anyone have any verifiable sources to the contrary? Problem is, neither google nor publishers themselves, ever heard about those books.įacts that said blog was started about 2 years ago, which is consistent with usual game development time AND is referenced by TTP Steam Emoticon don't really help it's credibility. Which contains "reviews" of two books titled "The Talos Principle", one by "Penguin Books", other by "Wordsworth". Wikipedia never heard of such philosopher, and the ONLY relevant page found by in entire English-speaking internet is the following blog: Title of the game is supposed to be based on idea of Straton of Stageira, but I can't verify existence of such a person.
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