What the hell are brownies? Are they cake? Are they fudge? Something else? Around my house we’ve debated the brownie problem and the hotdog/sandwich problem many, many times. These questions confound the modern person, but Aristotle dealt with them easily. Brownies are cake. Brownies do not differ in any essential way from cake in it’s …
I’ve been obsessed with metaphysics lately. All problems are essentially metaphysics. Edward Feser says in his book, Scholastic Metaphysics, “Metaphysics wears the pants.” ‘Tis true. Metaphysics being prior to all problems AND being embroiled in an ideological conflict, that conflict is actually metaphysical. Understanding the metaphysics behind the opposition is crucial to winning. Evil is the …
I’ve got to build on what we discussed here. Yet more on evil Detecting BS. Discernment. Seeing through the lies. This can be the difficult task when you are looking at evil, deceptive behavior. How do you know when they are lying? How can you tell when you are lying to yourself? Read and learn …
How can I tell when they are lying? More on evil. Read More »
You many want to go back and read this little series on evil. 1.The Moderate is ALMOST the most evil 2. More on evil 3. A little more on evil Evil is the absence of the Good, as Boethius proved for us 1500 years ago. How then do we see evil in action? This seems …
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 …
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. …
The word problematic is utter bullshit. Either something is a problem or it is not. You could think that something might possibly be a problem, but then you would say, this could be a problem. This could be a problem that when you say “problematic”, you impart some nature upon the thing that it may not in fact have.