On 18 April 2018 at 23:57, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
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> theology. It just means “theory of everything’” for the greeks,
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> No it doesn't.  First, "theory" has a different origin from "theos"=god.
> Second, for the Greeks "theology" meant discourse concerning the gods.  From
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> Greek theologia (θεολογία) was used with the meaning "discourse on god" in
> the fourth century BC by Plato in The Republic, Book ii, Ch. 18.[14]
> Aristotle divided theoretical philosophy into mathematike, physike and
> theologike, with the last corresponding roughly to metaphysics, which, for
> Aristotle, included discourse on the nature of the divine

"with the last corresponding roughly to metaphysics"...

Telmo

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