... intentions and ... deliberate ... dispute over ... for an ... The point I am making in regard to final causality and Austrian economics is a more specific...
Yup James, will be back in ND in a little while. I'm here in Toronto at a bioethics conference. I just met Joseph Boyle who collaborates with John Finnis. I...
... Yes they do, just as Husserlians like Edith Stein tried to point to an agreement between Thomistic realism and intentionality as defined by Brentano (who...
This is an attempt at a teleological justification based upon being/becoming and the formal and material definitions of motion. Motion taken as any change...
... Note that neither the formal nor material definitions of motion as you describe them here would apply to inertial motion, since inertial motion has no...
A few corrections: ... 1) a rejection of Aristotle's cosmology does *not* necessarily imply ... 2) The sentence below may not suggest final causality or...
In a message dated 8/2/03 9:17:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Therefore, the formal definition of motion is "the actualization of what exists in potency...
... The question is moot as to whether Aquinas would or would not agree with Stein, etc. Clearly Aquinas is not around to debate. Thus it is a matter for...
... The "actualization," as you pointed out, is an IMPERFECT act, which as you also pointed out, is obviously defined in relation to a complete and perfect ...
In a message dated 8/2/03 12:12:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Anthony, it seems that the defintion doesn't dictate completion but only indicates *becoming*...
... On the contrary, his analysis explicitly brackets human freedom (which is absolutely essential to human action) in precisely the same way that Husserl's...
... Although the "actualization" or "act" in the definition of motion is not a perfect act (and therefore perfection is not DIRECTLY in the definition of ...
In a message dated 8/2/03 5:44:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Anthony, I appreciate the discussion and this is the strength of scholastic philosophy, the...
... Something in inertial motion cannot have an intended perfection because it TENDS to stay in motion, and therefore TENDS to stay imperfect (since motion is...
... Anthony, this is a good distinction and from the *perspective* of the moderns, I agree that something in inertia motion does not have an intended ...
... When I say over generalization, in one sense it is a lack of generalization since it does not account for other types of motion other than locomotion. ...
... The reason there is no incompatibility between those is that being caught is not the NATURALLY intended end or perfection of the ball at all. The end of ...
In a message dated 8/3/03 9:04:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... From the perspective of the moderns inertia applies to artifacts as well as to natural sensible...
... But again, which datum does it not account for? That the tree stops growing, or the bird stops when it catches the fish, or a spider stops after it makes a...
Anthony, lets try this again. I believe inertia is flawed for the reasons given previously and therefore a redefinition is reasonable under the circumstance....
... I noticed that list membership has grown about 14 percent (from about 175 to 199 members) specifically in the time we have been having this discussion on ...
In a message dated 8/4/03 8:58:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... I take it then that the chain of arguments to perfection might work if developed appropriately,...
As I noted earlier, Menger begins his economics with a view to the external world and to the goods which are constituted in the world. This realistic...
... Yes but I specifically said in my last post that the similarity between Husserl and Menger is not that both bracketed the same thing, but that both ...
... Here is an explicit one from Summa Contra Gentiles III.3: "Furthermore. All action and movement is for some perfection. For if the action itself be the...
In a message dated 8/5/03 1:41:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Thanks Anthony. All action and movement is for some perfection otherwise the action itself...
... I think he means that it is a further or added perfection of the agent, above and beyond whatever perfections the agent possesses already apart from the...
In a message dated 8/5/03 3:54:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ... "For if the action itself be the end, it is clearly a second perfection of the agent." So, if...
