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Heidegger's view of Nietzsche as metaphysician requires accepting the following as the only way to understand the 'natural' and the role of 'eternal r...

Well, this is where we part ways. I read Aristotle to complicate the clear distinctions you embrace. But I appreciate the aspect where we see sensatio...

This is a great resource. I read a number of passages I was familiar with and found the translations very rigorous. It is great to have such a consist...

Do you know where Aristotle expresses this 'direct action' as clearly as that? It seems to me that this is one of the most difficult parts of the text...

I take the general point from Physics regarding affecting and being affected. When looking at the movement from perception to 'intellection', the disc...

Those calculations make sense but whether Russia can really find a work around to the sanctions is the big strategic question. I follow the general id...

I agree that it takes two to tango. Aristotle, however, speaks of two concurrent activities on this matter rather than of one thing simply changing an...

The guy was a catalyst for reconsidering Ancient Greek texts in a time where scholars were very pleased with themselves. Some bitter enemies recognize...

Thanks for the link to the essay. A quarter of the way in, I see that it is a serious challenge to established scholars. I will study more before tryi...

The language of 'independent' has an interesting role in your account. I agree with your approach that what can be known is a connection to our experi...

It would be a monkey brain thing to map out what stop chattering meant. You can't be quiet and say what it is. There are different practices that appr...

I did so here in response to: This does not make sense of much of what Aristotle has said. I am getting off the merry-go-round now. You do not recogni...

I hate this piecemeal sort of reply. If a comment is not worth a separate effort, then it is just an idea you see amongst other ideas. I get enough of...

How about Aristotle's De Anima? Or is that an overgrown lot filled with irreconcilable weeds?

That is not a fair accounting. I have quoted Aristotle extensively where I think he does not support your thesis. I did wrestle with your thesis itsel...

We are back at the same impasse met last year. What you consider small, I find to be fundamental. It is not just about the nature of heavenly bodies. ...

I appreciate your recognition that what you present is at odds with the text, as testimony. I will think about your thesis under these new parameters.

I am familiar with Gendlin and his suggestions. He does a great job of showing how easy it is to misunderstand what Aristotle is saying. But I think R...

I don't think that Spinoza captures exactly what Aristotle said but agree those writings are closer than pretty much anything else before recent attem...

I read it to say that what gives a surface a color is intrinsic to what the thing is: The transparent is a change caused from an outside activity: An ...

While noting that distance, it is interesting to see how some elements in the 'sublunary' sphere are active in the divine sphere:

I won't repeat last year's argument concerning your interpretation of De Anima Book 1. I will just leave this discussion by observing that it does not...

You said: I quoted from Metaphysics, Book Epsilon: Your thesis of a mortal Kosmos is so sharply different from Aristotle's' account of different kinds...

I was not arguing that individuals were only what could be marked out as their kind. Aristotle refers to different kinds of ousia. You said that there...

This separation of what is natural from what is divine runs counter to the way ousia is presented as different in kind but all connected to the same u...

I need to think about this matter of giving accounts of the arche between Aristotle and Plato. I will reply on your thread.

How does that 'suggestion' square against Aristotle using the word without that limitation?? How does that change what is said in Reeve's translation ...

Aristotle used ousia in numerous places regarding the 'immaterial',if you are suggesting they were always connected with matter. I don't like Reeve fo...

I am using Reeve's translation for convenience. Present one you like better. Or is your beef with Aristotle?

The idea that we have the same chemistry as stars is astonishing. The telescopes keep pushing the border of the 'sublunary' sphere further away. The d...

Aristotle's astronomy tried to account for how beings found within the 'sublunary sphere' had anything to do with those observed outside of it. Now th...

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I take Sachs' and Kahn's point regarding how the use of 'substance' is misunderstood as a translation of einai and ousia. It is not germane to the dis...

Qualities and parts all men share as attributes do not show us the cause of why we share them. That is how I read the text I quoted. Do you see anothe...

What we can determine is common to a species is not seeing what makes a substance become and maintain its being. As quoted before: To look for causes ...

I think that distinction works in the absolute terms of the De Anima, 408b passage. I read the focus on the actual compared to the potential in other ...

It is. A lot of Aristotle's language is hard to decipher. Not this stuff. The status of this Easy is a matter of much dispute. We and many others have...

The active intellect in a living person is not a separate 'faculty' in the sense of a capacity that can be set side by side with another faculty of th...

That idea is going to have a hard time getting past what I just quoted upthread: So, less a matter of 'absorption' and more like swallowing a balloon ...

Rugulah. I see I have been corrected. Now I have a hankering for one.

Thank you. He still is kicking my ass. I did not bring him up as a rebuttal to any thesis here but only to note that Aristotle is not keeping the peas...

What became difficult for me to understand then and since then is: You seem to be putting the active principle outside of the combining of matter and ...

Before Aristotle discusses actuality and potentiality in Book Theta, the problem of universals as causes is discussed in Book Zeta. Starting with: The...

Aristotle has got your back: It is also worth inquiring how time is related to the soul and why time is thought to exist in everything, on the earth a...

I have not heard this interpretation from any other commentator, ancient or modern. In the discussion last year, I realized that I was never going to ...

Potentiality only refers to substances composed with matter: The matter is potential only in relation to what a substance actually is: Living things a...

Is that how Kant would have looked at it? That was my question. Your observation made by Jung is interesting.

Unless you believed that those beginnings implied influences that were deemed demonic afterwards.