hi there a friend of mine stated that you can only love what you know(someone,God,an ideology,etc...),as supposedly you don't know God,therefore you can not...
There are two questions that are involved in your statement. First is that we must be able to define love. In one sense we say that we love knowledge. While...
I think your friend has a narrow view of 'to know'. Knowing, and therefore loving, is not done solely on a 'face to face' bases. We know many things that we...
Melissa Nikolic
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Oct 4, 2002 2:37 pm
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Yes, through revelation a person can have a degree of knowledge. Via the revelation itself we would only know of his existence. So we must ask whether...
I realize that this forum has been rather quiet lately, and that it is perhaps not false to say that some discussion is better than none, but I confess that I...
In order to understand how one could love the Revealer of revelation we must understand the revelation itself. It is more than simply proving the existence of...
Umm Muadth
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Oct 4, 2002 4:56 pm
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I think any investigation of meanings of any words very often leads right back to Aristotle. However, in my opinion I would suggest not doing the slowing ...
Unfortunately you have not explained the nature of the knowledge and how that would lead to love. Secondly, you described features of love, i.e., how ...
I think this is a good suggestion. I personally believe that one does their best study when the knowledge is relevant to their lives at that moment. If there...
Melissa Nikolic
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Oct 4, 2002 5:04 pm
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... I haven't seen much evidence of that in *this* forum. ... Agreed. My suggestion is that this particular conversation ought to be carried out elsewhere...
All right, I'll put my money where my mouth is--I'll start a thread on the Posterior Analytics. Someone else can start one on the Categories or some other work...
Mr. Carson, as a Professor I am sure you recognize that learning is the end goal of any intellectual endeavor. Mr. Zucker has just proved with his last post...
Melissa Nikolic
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Oct 4, 2002 6:10 pm
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... the end ... his last ... leads right ... Actually, I'd have to say that he didn't, in fact, "prove" it, he merely asserted it. My experience of such...
"Certainly nothing in the present thread has lead right back to Aristotle, since none of it is particularly Aristotelian, nor does it invoke any specific...
Melissa Nikolic
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Oct 4, 2002 6:54 pm
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... See: http://freelance-academy.org/slowread.htm Lancelot Fletcher list owner...
... Aristotle, ... any ... Aristotelian ideas It may have, but one wouldn't know it from what you posted. ... order to ... My response was not about Aristotle,...
Why Aristotle would join the 'some ideas I had today' email group or Proof from Aristotelian text that the discussion of 'life' is a valid forum for exploring...
Umm Muadth
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Oct 4, 2002 7:18 pm
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Mr. Carson, Of course 'slow reading' is the foundation of this list. But your own problems with anything other than strict reading of the text is evidence ...
Melissa Nikolic
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Oct 4, 2002 8:54 pm
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... teaching ... Another way of conceiving of this foundationalism is to note that Aristotle is giving a rather clever solution to an age old puzzle. The...
An implication of Aristotle's opening statement, on this interpretation, is that there can be no teaching or learning of first principles. Does Aristotle...
David Hitchcock
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Oct 5, 2002 3:58 am
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i´ve received an e-mail personnal from you,i would like a confirmation or i´´ll have to consider it an attack(nothing personnal,but they do this very...
... interpretation, is ... Does ... A good question! I'm not so sure I see that this is an implication of my interpretation--it may depend upon the sense of...
... I was thinking of the following remark in your previous posting: "Aristotle's solution is rather different. By holding that there is a foundational...
David Hitchcock
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Oct 6, 2002 3:36 pm
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... the view ... which ... This isn't exactly what I said, actually. Aristotle's view is that all teaching (*didaskalia*) and all learning (*mathEsis*) proceed...
I have a few questions to ask for greater clarification of some of the recent topics. Be forewarned, however, that these questions may be very basic and...
Umm Muadth
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Oct 9, 2002 4:04 am
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... Agreed. ... Agreed. And some teaching and learning will proceed from perceived particulars to the universal generalizations which are first principles. ...
David Hitchcock
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Oct 9, 2002 4:46 am
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From: "David Hitchcock" <hitchckd@...> To: <aristotle-logic@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:18 PM Subject: Re: [aristotle-logic]...
Hi, Melissa. I don't recall anyone else responding to your questions, so I'll do my best. See below. David ... From: "Umm Muadth"...
David Hitchcock
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Oct 12, 2002 12:23 am
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Thank you David for answering my questions. I do appreciate the time taken out to do so. I have a question about particulars and substances which arose from...
Melissa Nikolic
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Oct 12, 2002 2:44 am
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... and ... case? No, 'particular' and 'substance' are not synonymous for Aristotle. The relationship of these two terms is different in different works of ...