'If Aristotle is to have "revenge" in metaphysics it will come from a re-characterization that illustrates the relevance of his thought to modern humanity.'
Review by J. Eric Wise of Aristotle's Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science, by Edward Feser Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2019
#metaphysics #science
Audio of a May 2, 2019 lecture by Dr. Peter Redpath at Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, part of the PVCC Public Philosophy Spring 2019 Lecture Series, posted at Public Philosophy.
#metatphysics #war
Steven Nadler reviews The Young Descartes: Nobility, rumor, and war, by Harold Cook, "a new Life that shows the philosopher ‘deeply embedded in his dangerous times’", at The Times Literary Supplement.
"In other words, Descartes was, first and foremost, a scientist. However, like many scientists of his time (with notable exceptions, such as Newton), he believed that in order for disciplines like physics (including the mechanics of hard and fluid bodies) to achieve the absolute certainty of which they were capable (at least in principle), they needed to be put on secure and indubitable foundations. By emptying the natural world of soul-like forms, Descartes’s metaphysics of mind and body – whatever theological service it performed – rendered the phenomena of nature amenable to strictly mechanistic explanations. Descartes the epistemologist and Descartes the metaphysician were really working for Descartes the scientist: this will not be news to anyone who has read the philosophical works (most of which have been translated into English) or kept up with the scholarly literature of the past thirty years."
#metaphysics #science
Brian Welter reviewed The Moral Psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas: An Introduction to Ragamuffin Ethics, by Peter A. Redpath, at Studia Gilsoniana.
"The author connects organizational psychology with moral psychology, highlighting how both feature whole-part relationships. When indifferent to the principles put forth by Aristotle and St. Thomas, the reason that orders these relationships 'inclines to become anarchic' (22). Redpath links this back to the West’s philosophical problems. The decline and anarchy we see around us stem from the fact that 'centuries ago, Western civilization lost its understanding of the nature of philosophy as an organizational psychology' (22). By this he specifically means the lost 'understanding of the natures of metaphysics, ethics, and science as habits of leadership excellence of the human soul' (22)."
#metaphysics #virtue
Twenty required questions, one point for each correct answer, and eighteen optional questions, here.
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Brian Kemple posted this excerpt from his recently published dissertation, Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition, at LinkedIn. As he there says,
"my intent, and my interpretation of Thomas Aquinas, marks a shift in Thomistic philosophy--a shift away from metaphysical realism and towards a semiotic worldview."He gave several presentation, as you might recall, at this year's Aquinas Leadership International World Congress.
#metaphysics #sign
"Jennifer Wang (Stanford University) introduces us to a puzzle that has bedeviled philosophy since the ancient Greeks: the Ship of Theseus. She tells the Ship of Theseus story, and draws out the more general question behind it: what does it take for an object to persist over time? She then breaks this ancient problem down with modern clarity and rigor."Uploaded by Wireless Philosophy to YouTube
(via Joshua Spencer)
#being #change #metaphysics
Book One, Chapter 30 Plotinus, at YouTube, from the book The History of Western Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell
(via Great Conversation Reading Group)
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Fourth Annual Aquinas Leadership International World Congress: "Augustine, Aquinas, and the Apologetics of the New Reformation(s)"
Chair, A. William McVey, Adler-Aquinas Institute
Streamed live on July 15, 2017
#government #metaphysics #wealth
Previous session ALI 2017 Plenary Session 10: Guardini: From Mysticism & Apologetics to Pope Francis & Technocratic Paradigms
Update: Following session ALI 2017 Plenary Session 12: Remembering John Deely as Colleague & Philosophical Reformer
"Amidst all the apparent contradiction and confusion, there is a basic problem that besets all communication between the religious and the secular worlds. Religious statements are rooted in a metaphysical system, an understanding of the universe, which is pretty foreign to the modern, liberal mind. In traditional Christian thought, the primordial (and for many modern minds, intensely controversial) assertion is the existence of a loving God, from whom humanity has been estranged. Within that system, self-exclusion from that loving God is self-evidently a 'hellish' choice; that is almost a tautology, a statement of the obvious. Outside that metaphysical system, statements about exclusion from God's love don't make any sense at all, they sound like pious nonsense."
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