The original language of the amendment included "well-regulated militias" so that local governments did not have to rely on a centralized military to ...
I have been disagreeing with your interpretation of its purpose in the text. It doesn't match what Aristotle says later in De Anima. You discredit ref...
I am beginning to feel guilty about the extent I am discussing Aristotle on the basis of your OP. Would you prefer this sort of thing happen in a diff...
If this is Aristotle's intention, why is it placed in Book 1 of De Anima, devoted to the criticism of his predecessors' views of the soul, and not in ...
I have found this essay of Gerson's that works at giving an 'Aristotelian' basis for speaking of a 'disembodied person.' It is an impressive bit of sc...
There is a distinction being made here between nous and the psyche. To infer that is for the purpose of rejecting "the whole idea of an eternal "mind"...
That part of the argument relates to the overarching context of the passage which concerns how the cosmic status of the Soul relates to what is possib...
It is one thing to grasp the idea through skills living beyond a given generation but another to see how it applies to the very principle through whic...
In the citations I put forward on this topic here so far, Aristotle shows himself clearly interested in framing the question of mortality/immortality ...
That should read as the beginning of the conflict between them. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews was an eviction notice. There was plenty of mysticism aro...
Well, guitar geek Kimmo Aroluoma gives a detailed description of Hendrix's use of effects including the Stockholm show. Aroluoma gives the concert low...
If there is a distinction to be made between "impersonal union" and what the Christian view proposes, what is to be made of Gerson's reference to a 'd...
Gerson is a scholar whose focus has long been on Plotinus and your description of 'Platonism' is very close to his view. Gerson used the expression "d...
Gerson assumes an answer to my question when he says: The issue I raised is whether the active principle of the intellect is a person as one who exper...
Where do you read this notion in Aristotle? What is clearly stated in Aristotle is an interest in understanding causes of events and the reality of ac...
The idea had a role in Judaism long before the Christians emerged. The Shekhinah are places where one can dwell and the Unnamable One is said to do/ha...
Yes, the nous is seen as a principle of actuality that does not perish. The question is how to understand the relation of that principle to a composit...
I was asking for references in Aristotle that supported your suggestion that a soul survived death as a particular unit. When I said: 'It sounds like ...
I am not sure about all the fancy theories regarding political theater versus why the people on the stage are put there. But the problem of who has a ...
The model was physical in so far as the beings being perceived acted upon sense organs capable of being acted upon. To that extent, it is similar to t...
Perhaps the two kinds of claims are not only not similar but inversely proportional to some extent. Descartes campaigned for a particular method of ep...
I have listened to the Gerson lecture a couple of times. Do you know of a link to a printed copy? Each of his statements are proposals to discuss very...
Your account of what Aristotle says the intellect depends upon confuses this question. Yes, a living creature who has the capacity to know is only pos...
Your account reflects the distinctions Aristotle is making. But the phrasing of this remark should be reconsidered:" In contrast, when separated from ...
Starting with the latter, Spinoza argued against free will on the basis that everything that happens is caused to happen and that we don't understand ...
The capacity to perceive other beings reaches the highest level when a being is actually what they are in one's presence. That is possible because of ...
Outside of the context of the compulsion to comply, the practice of holding other people accountable is closely bound by how much responsibility is ac...
De Anima went into why the different kinds of life are different from each other. The potentials of what can be experienced are sharply contrasted aga...
Maybe it is true that the 'anima' is the same in many forms of life. What Aristotle introduced is a correspondence of perception. Plants respond to ot...
I am referring to the writers who ventured to speak of the fundamental elements of the world. So, starting with Thales up to the contemporaries of Soc...
some beaty is immediately arresting and other forms involve a measure of time to glimpse. in Homer, realizing that one is present before a god was odd...
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