Jon A, Those three criteria (copied below) are Plato's. Aristotle's father was a physician, and he trained his son for the first 18 years. Aristotle admitted that Plato's mathematical forms are perfect, but he recognized the need to value and deal with the facts of life and the world. Aristotle's writings on biology are more voluminous than his writings on philosophy. Philo Judaeus of Alexandria was an early neoplatonist, who wrote many volumes to reconcile the Torah with Greek philosophy. Until the 13th century, most philosophers and theologians were neoplatonists, who accepted as much of Aristotle's writings as they could force into a Platonic framework. But the rediscovery of Aristotle and the commentaries by Averroes (Ibn Rushd), originally from Arabic translations and later from the original Greek, revolutionized theology (Aquinas) as well as science (Roger Bacon). Until 1270, bell ringers depended on sun dials and hour glasses. But by 1300, every town in Europe of any size had a church with a clock that automatically rang the bells. Aristotle made imperfections safe for philosophy, science, and engineering. With his three universes, Peirce reconciled Plato (mathematics) and Aristotle (actuality). Mathematics includes the universe of possibilities (all hypotheses) and necessities (all theorems provable from the hypotheses). The laws of science are mathematical theorems whose hypotheses have been tested to a high level of confidence. John ______________________JA> According to John Dewey, it is because of the human quest for perfect certainty that philosophy has inherited three problematic viewpoints: <QUOTE> the first, that certainty, security, can be found only in the fixed and unchanging; the second, that knowledge is the only road to that which is intrinsically stable and certain; the third, that practical activity is an inferior sort of thing, necessary simply because of mans animal nature and the necessity for winning subsistence from the environment. </QUOTE> John Dewey The Quest for Certainty
Jon A, Those three criteria (quoted below) are Plato's.
Aristotle's father was a physician, and he trained his son for the first 18 years. Aristotle admitted that Plato's abstract forms were perfect, but he recognized the need to value and deal with the imperfections of life and the world.
Philo Judaeus of Alexandria was an early Neoplatonist, who wrote many volumes to reconcile the Torah with Greek philosophy.
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