Me, I am the great American systematizer

“We are not meant to see this” idk about you but I certainly was meant to see it, that thing looks cool as fuck

I agree and I’m happy he attempted to own the thomists but his metaphysics was complete shit.

λόγος etymology is not "what is spoken". it comes from the original meaning of λέγειν, to gather a manifold into one, from which "speaking" was derived by metaphor. however bold this claim might be, keeping it in mind is of extreme importance: while man has logos essentially, a logos belongs to man accidentally. man grasps the logos of things, doesnt make it. this invites you to think beyond the lazy tautology that thought is whatever man does: what are logoi independent of man and what are they for man?

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"É na medida gradual em que se desdobra em sua série que o caráter divino se define. [...] Quando Proclo repete que cada henada comunica à sua série seu próprio caráter, é preciso compreender que este deus abre por seu poder um campo de símbolos que sua série preencherá de todos os modos possíveis sob uma lei única. Seria legítimo fazer atribuir a ele esta lei [...]. Mas isso não nos autorizaria a qualificar o princípio [a henada] se nós a abstraíssemos de sua série. Pois ela é ao mesmo tempo participada e imparticipável. Na medida em que é imparticipável, cada henada não se distingue do Uno. Apenas suas participações (seu número) a fornecesse uma posição inteligível. Apenas sua série a concede ser e afirmação. Sem ela a henada se reabsorveria no Não-Ser por excesso, assim como os centros secundários de uma esfera se confundiriam com o centro principal se cessassem de se distinguir pelo raio que cada um projeta em direção à periferia. A henada não é uma entidade, mas uma passagem, que não pode se definir senão pelo que ela produz. 'Pois todas as henadas são conjuntas na medida em que permanecem no Uno, e elas se distinguem na medida em que elas realizam processões diferentes a partir do Uno' (In Parm., VI, 1051.10-13)." (Jean Trouillard, 1982, pp. 200-201)

This but unironically

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It's crazy how nearly every critique of Platonism is either A. The guardian allegory in The Republic is Plato's practical plan for society. Or B. Platonism is "all is one" substance monism. Neither of which are true.

Yes you bottom-feeding, drooling retard

This owl's reaction to affection is absolutely precious 🦉❤️

The primordial foundation by which the American youth forged their most basic friendships

The love of plump women is inextricably linked to the Italian identity

Platonic knowledge (episteme) is not a relation between a knower and a known. Nor is it proposition which is to say it isn't informational. It is the soul's being-together with the Forms in which the knowing and the known are the same. Taylor's "recovery" language is right, but what is recovered is not information; it is the soul's own Noetic nature, which was never propositional to begin with. Dianoia rests at the the discursive, propositional level and is explicitly below episteme on the divided line. What Taylor is pointing toward is noetic contact, not the remembrance of rational arguments. So the soul doesn't "remember" that triangles have 180 degrees as a fact; it re-identifies with the Form itself, which includes that truth as its own luminous content. Which means Nous does not know particular temporal events propositionally. It knows beings as eternal, formal, self-luminous content. When we mix this up we are asking Nous to function as doxa or even sense-perception.

Faith should not slay reason. Reason is the divine director God himself has placed within each of us: "...it [the soul] does all that the daemon wishes, which Zeus hath given to every man for his guardian and guide, a portion of himself. And this is every man's understanding and reason." -Marcus Aurelius "He [Zeus] has assigned to each man a director, his own personal daemon, and committed him to his guardianship; a director whose vigilance no slumbers interrupt, and whom no false reasoning can deceive." -Epictetus Plato wrote in the Timaeus: "God has given to each of us, as his daemon, that kind of soul which is housed in the top of our body and which raises us, seeing that we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant up from earth towards our kindred in the heaven... for it is by suspending our head and root from that region whence the substance of our soul first came that the Divine Power keeps upright our whole body." Cleanthes beheld Zeus guiding "the universal force, Reason, through all things interfused... Thyself of all the sovran and the source." From this flows "Eternal Reason, which the wicked flee and disregard... Ill fated folk, for would they but obey with understanding heart, from day to day their life were full of blessing, but they turn each to his sin, by folly led astray." To claim that faith must slay reason, this heavenly daemon, and pretending doing so is a "service to God" is to embrace the very ignorance and folly Cleanthes condemns. It is the path of superstition and zealotry that leads only to the reckless deeds of men whose own hearts lead them to perversity. Plato warns us in the Sophist that "We certainly must contend by every argument against him who does away with knowledge or reason or mind and then makes any dogmatic assertion about anything." Listen instead to the daemon God appointed in you.

Integrative Unity bound and filled by the Good please save me…

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