It is a testament to the power of his thinking that we do find some of his ideas rather obvious today. It means they’ve lasted this long and become part of our modern way of understanding. He was the first person of note in history to consider these questions and bring his answers together to form a system with anything like the level of detailed comprehension it has. Yet, somehow, it seems to lack real transformative power, and I think the reasons for this are twofold, though related.
