Joe Maurer related April 18th 2013:
Hi Ant,
At 80 my chronology of schooling is muddled.
I went to a Catholic seminary for six years from the 6th grade studying
Latin, Greek etc., to become a Catholic priest. Metaphysics was the highest
course in philosophy after years of logic and physics. I spent my high-
school years and two years of college at the seminary. I did not continue
to the next level and was never ordained as a Catholic priest.
>From the seminary I went to the Dominican Order to became a monk. St. Thomas
Aquinas was a Dominican. I studied his thinking in philosophy as well as
the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine. After years of study I
was released from the monastery. I spent two more years to get a BA degree
in philosophy at a local Junior college.
Ant McWatt comments:
Joe,
It sounds like you had the type of philosophological training that I could have
done with before embarking on a PhD about the MOQ!
With that in mind, is there anything by St. Augustine and Aquinas that has any
relevance to the MOQ or do find them just too dominated by Aristotlean thought?
Also, it would also be appreciated - time and inclination allowing - if you
could address my original second question icw your use of this term
"individuality". i.e.
Joe Maurer continued March 17th 2013:
> DQ/SQ is more readily
> understood as indefinable individuality, definable reality than
> subject/object division. DQ the indefinable manifests in evolution in
> existence of indefinable/definable reality.
Ant McWatt then asked:
> Secondly, I can largely follow what you're saying here Joe except for your use
> of the term "individuality" in the phrase "indefinable individuality"
> (especially in the context of Dynamic Quality). It's unclear to me why you
> didn't use the term "reality" instead (so the term read as "indefinable
> reality").
Best wishes,
Ant
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