Theory of Forms
202and Aristotle Makes Three
12 Aug 2024
7:32¶ 21
“Yes, because we are dealing with the Greek worldview in general, and these are variations on it, not radical departures from it. We’re still…”
8:06¶ 22
“The best illustration I’ve seen and borrowed and used for years is that you come to a vase and you know it’s a vase…”
8:28¶ 23
“Aristotle would look at this and say, “I can touch this. I can feel it. I can see it. I can smell it. I…”
201Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Ethics according to Plato
5 Aug 2024
8:07¶ 25
“To generalize then, he postulates that there are ideas, universals, original analogs, archetypes for everything. There’s the ideal chair. There’s the ideal dog or…”
9:25¶ 28
“A couple things just in passing, because I think it’s easy for Christians who do a superficial reading of Wikipedia or Brittanica or something…”
10:25¶ 31
“When Christians approach this it’s easy to say, “So what he’s thinking about basically is we would say ideas in the mind of God.”…”