Aristotle by Woodfin Rupert
Author:Woodfin, Rupert
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848319868
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2015-06-17T16:00:00+00:00
… ALL BEINGS GREAT AND SMALL ARE LINKED IN ORDER; AND THIS ORDERLINESS IS FORM, WHICH STAMPS GOD’S LIKENESS ON THE ALL.
Theological ecologists today also insist on reverence for the hierarchical order and design of nature. Bio-diversity is a divine ordination. The careless elimination of whole species of plants and animals is actually sinful, because God is in all of them.
Determinism
Aristotle’s methodology seems to give us a very deterministic picture of the world. When we have done the explanatory work, we will see that everything in the world is linked logically. Things that are linked logically are linked by necessity, so they are determined. There has been much discussion of determinism in modern philosophy. So what exactly Aristotle really meant has great importance. He did not write much about determinism as such.
IN ONE WELL-KNOWN PASSAGE, HE DESCRIBES A MAN WHO BECOMES THIRSTY AFTER EATING SPICY FOOD …
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