Anarthlic on Nostr: More and more as I delve into the rabbit hole of pre-Vatican II common sense, I am ...
More and more as I delve into the rabbit hole of pre-Vatican II common sense, I am moved to rethink my thesis on “humanistic marketing” and “customer-centericity”/ “focus”; and the answer seems to be with the utmltimate failure of Aristotle, as even Dante himself left in limbo. But after having discovered just yesterday, Aristotle’s will, where he asked idols to be erected in his name just before he died, then it would be quite safe to assume, something even worse than being in limbo—that Aristotle indeed, didn’t quite make it, in spite all the great philosophy he gave us. There is great wisdom here in St Thomas, who said: “The Jews require signs, and the Greeks seek wisdom. And so the Lord, in order to show the path of salvation to all, willed both ways… so that those who would not be brought to the path of salvation by the miracles of the Old and New Testaments, might be brought to a knowledge of the truth by the path of wisdom.”
Hence the problem with the Greeks and Aristotle, which leads me to rethink my thesis:
“The Aristotelian god was totally immobile, totally self-sufficient, and totally other. He existed as a completely self-sufficient Being in a world where nothing changed. As a result of his perfection, God has no reason to act. Creation, as a result, became so mysterious that the Greeks could only construe the universe as eternal, having no beginning or end. As a result, the universe became a competitor with God rather than an example of His handiwork. The name of that competition is pantheism or the belief that the universe and God were identical… Because Aristotle’s God was so remote, the Greeks sought some sort of connection with the divine through polytheism and magic, as manifested in gods like Zeus and Hermes.”
Hence the problem with the Greeks and Aristotle, which leads me to rethink my thesis:
“The Aristotelian god was totally immobile, totally self-sufficient, and totally other. He existed as a completely self-sufficient Being in a world where nothing changed. As a result of his perfection, God has no reason to act. Creation, as a result, became so mysterious that the Greeks could only construe the universe as eternal, having no beginning or end. As a result, the universe became a competitor with God rather than an example of His handiwork. The name of that competition is pantheism or the belief that the universe and God were identical… Because Aristotle’s God was so remote, the Greeks sought some sort of connection with the divine through polytheism and magic, as manifested in gods like Zeus and Hermes.”