What is the origin of the phrase "and nothing of value was lost"?
Is this from a movie, book, or show, or did it get its start on Slashdot or some other online forum?
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What is the origin of the phrase "and nothing of value was lost"?
Is this from a movie, book, or show, or did it get its start on Slashdot or some other online forum?
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I'm still checking for the origin of the phrase but here's something from Urban Dictionary:
and here's an explanation from Yahoo Answers:
Okay, found something more scholarly - in page 120 of David Archard's Philosophy and Pluralism by Lord Bhikhu Parekh we find this:
It actually references Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (1984), X.7! We're a bit closer now and I found this quote from that same reference:
Almost but not quite. If you read along though - you'll find the closest phrase to "and nothing of value was lost":
Here it is in the original Greek:
There's a French translation of this at Hodoi Electronikai:
Google Translate gives this back-translation:
UPDATE: I was able to contact David Archard and I asked him which particular part of X.7 is the statement "and nothing of value was lost" referring to. He said it was used by one of his contributors - Bhikhu Parekh.
okay, contacting Lord Bhikhu Parekh now ... :)