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I imagine force protection has to be the top criteria for such decisions. The Ukrainians cannot assume to know the depths of resources on the other si...

My impression from FN calling eternal recurrence a doctrine is that he meant it to be an antidote to the idea of an eternal life that turns our time i...

Do you have a passage of Aquinas that brings this point about simplicity forward?

The use of "inversions" is an odd feature of Nietzsche's work. He said that one should be careful about what one opposes because it gives the 'enemy' ...

And the Aquinas part? I will be back with my books tomorrow.

I don't know what texts you are referring to assert these statements with such certainty.

Yes, I get the unmoved part. Where in Aquinas does he suggest this agency is not an 'efficient cause'?

Please cite where you read this in Aquinas. From the point of view in Aristotle, referring to an 'unmoved' mover is the ultimate image of an efficient...

Point taken. I see them as joined together. But proceed with the same question regarding 'final cause'.

Rather than present a challenge to this statement, I ask you to provide the basis for it. The 'formal' cause, by the way, is to say that what one has ...

Aristotle does not assign the role of 'creator of the universe' to the Prime Mover but there is much agency implied in being both the efficient and fo...

I understand the distinction between methods that you make. I agree with Fooloso4 that people do not build temples to the Prime Mover. The emphasis up...

Well, you asked if Aristotle distinguished the realm of Becoming from some conditions that were not bound by those limits. In the context of asking wh...

Quote passages that support your view.

Generated beings happen because they appear through time and so have beginnings and endings as organisms. That element of this life is sharply disting...

I think that is true. On the other hand, he based his model upon separating the 'realm of becoming' from what is timeless: So, it is evident from what...

Are you onboard with Aristotle saying that the first principles that bring about the realm of becoming we live in is a matter of what he called "theol...

Does the Timaeus count as a proponent of natural theology?

It sounds like the Ukrainians and the Russians had nothing to do with it from that paraphrase. Seems unlikely in view of the "civil" war quality of th...

Who are you quoting?

Whether one describes it as a 'removal of a people' for the sake of doing that or not, the brutality accepted as necessary to achieve goals has been w...

When one takes it straight without chaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6SGoN6dA

I admit that I was fixated on the dental condition of a donkey, but others gave a more serious reply.

Many different people heard different meanings in those words in Matthew. The Great Schism between the Western and Eastern churches highlighted whethe...

For those involved with building theories through 'cybernetic codes', there is an interesting model that separates two kinds of cognitive processes an...

The talk of the 'timeless wisdom of Egypt' and mystery cults reminds me of Madame Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society. She, too, embraced Neo-Plato...

The entities are only a sufficient cause if they provide what their absence does not. Simply listing God as a cause is no advance toward explaining ph...

The point in the article about analogical language does point to something that is not 'univocal' in Aquinas' language. And Aquinas' statement that th...

Yes. Let the onus fall on you.

I don't think recommendations are pointless. I disagree with Chomsky in many ways but respect the way he pulls together what he thinks is coherent. I ...

Well, then, what is Chomsky's reading list?

You seem to be going beyond the necessity of any particular explanation by stating that the restriction suggested by Occam applies to all possible sta...

Yes, much more than the lawns. I am familiar with Mills, Waugh, O'Connor, and Brooks. Will check out the others. I think Steinbeck is a part of this. ...

One thing I don't understand about Milbank's argument is whether Scotus's 'univocity' cancels St. Thomas arguing that God is simple in Question 3 of t...

It has given me a boost when my other guilty pleasures did not.

My interests overlap with many of the books you and the other posters mention as important to them. I am going to check out a number of titles mention...

Apart from the question of whether causes and first principles exist outside of the individual beings they bring into existence, they can be distingui...

They are not separated in the generated individual, but Aristotle distinguishes between the soul as form and the individual repeatedly as the bulk of ...

Except for the forms and matter which make such beings possible.

The traffic lights turn blue tomorrow.

One of the roles of metaphor is to travel. Poetry as means of changing place and time.

They are a "special" class of beings in regard to distinguishing the generated from what is not generated.

Read Chapter 8 of Book Zeta of the Metaphysics for the briefest account of the "hylomorphism" that Aristotle uses throughout his works on natural bein...

This does not reflect Aristotle's thinking. Only some combined beings are capable of thought. The capacity is directly related to the condition of the...

That certainly must be the case. On the other hand, the experience of reading those texts directly after centuries of being told what it says may have...

It is a dark stain across most of the Protestant denominations.

Our efforts are required but more is needed beyond those. The limits of self-sufficiency are not a cancellation of them. Kierkegaard did not say that ...

The active intellect, in so far as it exists separately from the composite beings who are able to think because of it, are not experiencing this aspec...

Paul was not the philosopher Augustine was. The understanding of truth Paul worked with was for the purpose of translating between the Gentiles and th...