It isn't a matter of needing them as a nation. It's a matter of some groups who have a lot, wanting more. Not quite. The British and the French had se...
Mt Athos is definitely a very interesting place. The way I see it, Christianity is inextricably linked with the Roman Empire - which was really a Grec...
Unfortunately, I haven’t read any of Salinger’s books, but apparently his wife had a copy of The Way of a Pilgrim which was based on the hesychast tra...
Correct. It's a well-known fact (or ought to be) that Western, especially Anglo-American, interests have always been after Russia's resources. It was ...
Well, how about Russia's security when it is being surrounded by Nelson Rockefeller's NATO? And I never said “everything is just the machinations of t...
Well, your pro-EU and anti-Russia stance is well-known, which isn't in the least surprising coming from someone from Finland, a country that depends o...
Exactly. And the states that are most powerful (economically and militarily or both) dominate international relations either on their own or with the ...
So, what exactly are you suggesting? Are you seriously arguing that if (a) a corporation has "a million stockholders" (which would need to be establis...
Absolutely correct. Venezuela, Iraq, and many other places ... We know that the "Ukraine crisis" is not happening in a geopolitical vacuum, because th...
It would be nice if it was that simple. Unfortunately, I don’t think it is. Prices may be rising in Russia, but they are also rising elsewhere, especi...
The Philokalia tradition has an interesting history. Greek philosophy had long been the dominant philosophical system in Greece and, later, in the Rom...
That’s a totally unacceptable misrepresentation of what Aristotle is saying. He is NOT saying that it is a view held a long time ago. He says it is an...
In theory at least, if the unenlightened can pretend to be enlightened, the enlightened could equally pretend to be unenlightened …. :smile: However, ...
It isn’t “someone else’s principle” at all. He presents it as generally accepted tradition! As Aristotle himself says, it is a tradition “handed down ...
I think it is doubtful that there can be much depth there. A lot of these pop culture celebrities tend to come from dysfunctional backgrounds and have...
I'm afraid there is neither rhyme nor reason to what you are saying there. Aristotle clearly refers to the principle beyond the four traditional eleme...
Well, Mister “Metaphysician (Foolosopher) Undercover”, you keep recycling the same spurious claim under different guises and changing the goal posts e...
He does NOT demonstrate that AT ALL and you have ZERO evidence that he does. Aristotle uses the word "ETERNAL" (aidios) and as far as I am concerned h...
It does, doesn't it? I for one can see nothing wrong with seeing the funny side of things. I certainly don’t see enlightenment as reason to be overly ...
I think in the 21st century humanity ought to have left armed conflict far behind, but I agree that if there is a war the decision should be based on ...
The issue is not "common procedures in philosophy" at all. It is what Aristotle does or does not say in his treatises. He does NOT say that eternal ci...
I don’t think anyone is “monopolizing” anything. There wasn’t much of a discussion anyway. And if you follow the thread you will see that Metaphysicia...
That's exactly what Aristotle is saying! As clearly stated in De Caelo, the universe is spherical and it consists of concentric spheres representing t...
Absolutely not. Aristotle states very clearly that, though finite, the whole universe is spherical and consists of spherical bodies revolving in circl...
I think the term "ghetto" can be misleading as it evokes the image of people being forced by the state to live exclusively in a designated area. "Ghet...
You seem to confuse the heavens with soul, the circular motion of soul with eternal circular motion, circular motion in an infinite body with circular...
Correct. Not every preference of association is an "act of discrimination". Otherwise, every time people associate with others of the same race, class...
Good question. And aptly phrased. However, before we ask why someone did something, I think we should first try to establish that they actually did wh...
Exactly. The soul. Aristotle does NOT reject eternal circular movement. He rejects the notion that the soul moves in a circle as part of his wider arg...
That's exactly what I'm saying. Your comments seem to be one straw man after another, with little evidence of "truth" given that they are inconsistent...
I don't know about "nirvana" but I tend to doubt that enlightenment can be arrived at "by accident". The enlightened person must have gone through a p...
As I said, it is obvious that you have it backward, and I'm beginning to think you are doing it on purpose. Aristotle in De Caelo simply states that t...
He doesn’t say that. So you couldn’t have “quoted” it. You got it all backward as usual. :smile: The truth of the matter is that Aristotle says that t...
Briefly put, Aristotle’s arguments are as follows: (A). Time and motion are imperishable. (B). Therefore, they must have an imperishable cause. (C). T...
Well, Aristotle argues that time and motion are imperishable. And since any motion other than circular would have a beginning and end, imperishable mo...
Well, I think the ancients were definitely far more knowledgeable than is nowadays assumed. It's just that we moderns like to believe that it was us w...
Aside from being an ad populum argument, that does not constitute evidence that your "interpretation" is correct. This only shows that you got it all ...
That's exactly the kind of argument that Fooloso4 would come up with. Apparently, we had to accept everything he said because he had "the degrees to s...
Being under "enormous pressure" to decide whether a particular religion is the right one "within a month", doesn't sound like a typical situation to m...
Well, you can twist it as much as you want. :smile: The fact is I wasn't talking about "unacceptable principles". I was talking about your admitted me...
I never said you should listen to what I say. What I did say is that the original texts should be read as they are: By your own admission, you are dis...
The assumption that there are "two intellects" occurs about as frequently as the assumption that there are "two (or more) kinds of knowledge" or "thre...
Of course you believe Aquinas to be "by far the most comprehensive interpretation of Aristotle and Plato". Hardly anyone here could have failed to not...
Well, you seem to have some kind of fixation with Aquinas. The reality, of course, is that Aquinas is a Christian who is trying hard to put his own sp...
Sure. My point though was that he does not seem to reject the idea of reincarnation as such. Reincarnation was not a minor detail in the philosophical...
Correct. We mustn't forget that the Jewish world itself did not remain uninfluenced by Greek thought, culture, and language, which is why the OT was t...
Gerson doesn't focus just on Plotinus, though he does refer extensively to him. This is (1) because Plotinus was the first to attempt to systematize P...
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