Metaphysics
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Aquinas Contra Idealism
“For this can be true, that sensibles under the aspect of their sensibility do not exist; i.e., if they are considered under the aspect of sensibles actualized, they do not exist apart from the senses, for they are sensibles actualized insofar as they are present in a sense. And according to this every actualized sensible Continue reading
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A Few Thoughts on Kant and Metaphysics
Anyone familiar with Immanuel Kant’s famous Critique of Pure Reason (1781), or at least the main argument of that work, will know that it had a cataclysmic effect on metaphysics, a discipline which harkens back to the ancient Greeks. Kant’s argument in that work is that all knowledge can be accounted for on the basis Continue reading
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At the Odeon
Protagroas: Whatever appears to be the case to anyone is the case. Aristotle: No one who is in Lybia, having dreamed that he was in Athens, would go to the Odeon. Remarks Aristotle’s statement (from Metaphysics 1010β10-11) serves as a response to some consequences that follow from Protagoras’ above doctrine which itself issues from his Continue reading
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To Heraclitize
“You cannot step into the same river twice (ῷ αὐτῷ ποταμῷ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμβῆναι)” – Heraclitus Today’s word — to heraclitize, heraclitizing, viz., to follow or espouse the opinion(s) of Heraclitus. The concept of ‘heraclitizing’ originates from the Metaphysics of Aristotle: “For it was from this view that the most extreme of the opinions mentioned Continue reading
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