So it's a new form every time a color dims on an object? That's what you are saying. Aristotle got the idea of Plato that any change whatsoever would ...
Thomists are blind to alternative ways of thinking. How do they know prime matter is so unintelligible that it can't exist in its on? I liked Duns Sco...
Will to know? You just happen to like Aquinas and don't recognize that other people feel just of must truth from other thinkers. He made you dogmatic....
No, Aquinas is one out of thousands of interpreters of Aristotle. Aquinas was a genius only of coming out with thousands of faulty arguments. Those un...
I also want people to notice how MU dogmatically says that prime matter is unintelligible. He provides no evidence, no proof. Aristotelians never have...
. Followers of Duns Scotus thought that prime matter can exist on it's own. Also, when it comes to arguments for God, Aristotelians try arguments. The...
We sense discrete things within the flow of the continuous. If the past exists eternally and the machine doing the moving is in the future (as Aristot...
I like the way you said that. Did you know Stephen Hawking, in his no boundary hypothesis, put the continuous fundamentally prior in the formation of ...
Heidegger might have said that Parmenides was doing phenomenology when he wrote his poem. Parmenides found the Being/One behind the world, the noumena...
Everything starts out continuous and ends discrete. Even consciousness. You need a subconscious mind before you can awaken to your ego. The omega poin...
Neither Hegel nor Aquinas can prove their position. For Hegel, we start with nominalism and sense certainty. The practical. Then we move philosophical...
How to interpret Aristotle is highly contentious. You indoctrinated yourself into a Thomistic take on this, which says existence is a thing added to f...
1) you only assert all this. You have no evidence 2) there is no way to know Hegel was wrong to say something can be both itself and it's opposite 3) ...
You should clarify that by "idealist" you mean A\T (Aristotle and Aquinas) and not Hegel's objective idealism. Hegel thought they had a false idealism...
I don't feel like it is a good question to ask why the universe is orderly to our eyes and perceptions. That's like asking why you have two eyes inste...
I would not say the world is necessary. It's more likely contingent, and even more likely neither contingent nor necessary. I understand what people m...
First you say it's non-sensical to ask if nothing exists, then you do just that. Also, nothing in the English dictionary does not say that nothing is ...
I don't get why people think it's esoteric to wonder what it means to say "the world exists" but don't think it's esoteric to posit a super necessary ...
Some notes: 1) zero is useful, but nothing 2) Aristotle did not like OP question because for him God was only the final cause of the eternal universe,...
Our reality is largely subjective. Why there is something translates to "why do I have meaning", which translates straight into math: one is greater t...
Hegel says in his Encyclopedia that the idea of God and even the proofs brought forward for his existence are of great value in the dialectical moveme...
I think the human mind is capable of making some kind of sense out of any sentence. I am reminded of when Paul first sang "The movement you need is on...
. Hi. Gilson was a strict traditional Catholic, while Heidegger had rejected that faith. Heidegger was an apostate in Gilson's eyes. "There is no salv...
1) cite a Heidegger passage that is mystical please 2) why isn't Hegel's belief that every thing is really an Idea suspended in nothingness less mysti...
From what ive learned about Heidegger, he doesn't seem to believe in or put much respect towards the Law of the Excluded Middle. The style he writes e...
Is a stop sign one thing, one being? The sign itself is merely screwed into the pole. Yet we think of it as one thing. Turns out my arguments against ...
To be fair, he was talking about the world. For him it has actuality mixed with potency (and a host of other things). He believes in God as prime move...
Let me try this. Suppose, for WHATEVER reason, that a pen glued to a table means something to an aboriginal culture. To you it is two things, or three...
It's relevant because form becomes dependent on how cohesive "two" things are to each other. All we did was cut an apple. You say a metaphysical "spoo...
I've actually seen your argument many times, having read a lot of Edward Feser after studying Thomas Aquinas. If the avenue is infinite, any possibili...
Relaxed thinking is hardly Hegelian. "With a quickness". Hegelian thoughts on movement are coded in Hegelian's empirical thinking. They take these mat...
The Great Hegel quote, but MU does seem to really understand Aristotle and i'd also say he won't be moved by such a quote from Hegel. Hegelians and Ar...
. My understanding of pure potentiality as the prime first reality of our universe is very physical in nature. It's like Sean Carroll's ideas of the u...
Plato talks about the One in Parmenides but as far as I know never says what is most prior of all. I wrote what I thought the Platonic tradition was a...
Hegel was not always the best interpreter of others works, but I want to read his early piece comparing Schelling and Fitche. To my knowledge, Schelli...
"Who created the world?" asks young Heidegger . "Who? Huh? The potential to be does that" responds Hegel "Then the world is inferior to potentiality!"...
Well when I read the two paradoxes you presented, my mind did something infinite each time. One positive, the other negative. Btw, is "This sentence i...
Searle asked if you could tell by looking at hardware whether a computer was doing addition or "quaddition". I don't know. Software does seem to have ...
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