whaddya think Ron, if you had to come up with a religion based on Quality, would Philotheism be a good name/term for it?
John the wondering On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:40 AM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > Some people just need someone or something to hate. > I'ts much easier to hate Aristotle for the evil of SOM > than understand it as a process of neopythagoreanism > neoplatonism and the glorification of those sects by the > Romans via adopting the Christian faith as the official > religion of the empire. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo > > > -Ron > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: John Carl <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, February 21, 2010 1:45:15 PM > Subject: Re: [MD] side thought > > You know Ron, > > I've always had a grudge against ole Aristotle. Dumb reasons, I'm sure. > ZAMM first of all, and cringing in my own head at memories of Aristotlean > laughter when I failed to fit some authority's category. > > And then one of the biggest jerks in my experience, a friend of my mom's > who > was very full of himself, proclaimed Aristotle in pompous demeanor as his > Philosopher of choice. His message wasn't about Aristotle, his message was > about himself, but it didn't win any fandom from me. > > So I appreciate yer explication of him and forcing some re-thought; > especially the part about absolute relativism and Good as a limit we can > know in an intuitive, pattern-making, level-shifting interpretation type > deal that Willy and Josh and the boys used to discuss such things with > wonder and awe and without rancor or envy. > > The good ole days, as it were. > > > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:52 PM, X Acto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Came to a rather interesting part in metaphysics by ole Aristotle > > in regard to relativism, the kind that takes relativism to the infinite. > > We'd call such a thing an absolute relativism the kind that often gets > > quite a workout in discussions regarding Pragmatism .and it's pragmatism > > and Pirsig what comes to the forefront of the problems with a > philosphicaly > > absolute relativistic stance, that Aristotle makes the statement that it > > neglects the "good". I thought that was the best answer to the question > > of an absolutley relativistic metaphysical viewpoint. > > > > He makes a pragmatic arguement to support this statement, he says > > the good is a limit, something in which one is prepared to act apon, > > which sounded alot like Willy James. > > > > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
