Hi Joe 25 May: > In a Dominican monastery from 1962 to 1964 I was taught a metaphysics, > which Thomas Aquinas adapted from Aristotle in the 13th century. It > began with a substance/accident division of reality. A substance has > real existence. An accident participates in and modifies the > existence of the substance.
Right, Aristotle's dualism was "Form/Substance" and (according to you) Aquinas' modification Accident/Substance. OK, the crucial thing is that all are variations of the early Greek's False/True. Many have problems with Plato thinking his Ideas correspond to the present day article (which is our false part) but they were his true reality while senses represented falsity . > Quality and quantity were the first two accidents in a list of seven or > eight. Yes, we know that quality, values. moral became false secondary accidental after the Greeks - subjective in modern lingo. > This information was called subject/object metaphysics. Thing, one, > true, good, were transcendentals in that they could be said of > everything existing. But trust Joe to turn enigmatic :-) At least the Greek SOM came to put its stamp on Christendom through Aristotle by way of Aquinas, humankind got a Soul which was the primary, eternal part while the Body was secondary and perishable. My long-standing assertion is that Christendom is deeply intellect-influenced in contrast to Judaism & Islam as continuations of the old Social reality. Thus the Renaissance and Enlightenment did NOT emerge in spite of Christendom but because of it and the big question is why the Muslim world can't become "modern" and why the Jews forever must be torn between their orthodox and secular factions? Bodvar 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/md/archives.html
