In his Metaphysics Aristotle gave us four causes. These causes are used to understand what the thing in front of us is. For example, a rock and a hammer can be used to drive a nail. They differ in causes though. Our minds “understand” this, and thereby differentiate between the two. They causes are: The …
1. The reformation is the beginning of the reader parsing texts (bible) on his own, in a silo, in order to find “true meaning.” This is amok now. CRT and Identity politics is the natural conclusion of this. 2. Men like Bacon ridicule and reject the schoolmen and Aristotle and their approach to using sense …
My favorite blogger, Vox Day, recently published an outline for a new philosophy to rebuild the west upon. The Tree of Woe contemplates the West’s need for new philosophical foundations in the aftermath of the complete failure of the Enlightenment and classical liberalism. We need to do better than our great ancestors did. To defend …
In part one of this series, I described a very few of Aristotle’s axioms. He believed that understanding a few primary things about being would allow us to build valid arguments and reasoning for everything that followed, which he called the posterior. To summarize that first part, “being is.” Aristotle ran into people who disagree. …