Aristotle's Ethics

medeci

12/12/2008 2:50 AM UTC

religious traditions speak of God as both transcendent and immanent - can you explain how Aristotle's understanding of the Divine Reality agrees or disagrees with those two notions? Thank you. :-)

medeci

12/12/2008 2:49 AM UTC

Aristotle proposes a sort of hierarchy of intellect, a kind of graded epistemology, within us - how do we access that higher level of intellection? What do we do? Does he set forth a kind of path to awakening? If not accessing that the culmination of the human function? If so - why do professors of philosophy never mention that? 5) What is the difference between potentiality and actuality within Aristotelian philosophy? How does what we call physical matter fit into that framework? 6)Many

medeci

12/12/2008 2:47 AM UTC

I like the show! I wonder whether you might consider addressing the questions that have must enraptured me in my pondering of Aristotle: 1) How does Eudaimonia - on an individual level - relate to the "Unmoved Mover"? 2) If the Unmoved Mover is thinking about Itself - is everything derived from that process of thinking? Is that thinking conceptual or does it lack subject / object? 3) What does Aristotle mean by intellect? And how does that term relate to the Unmoved Mover? 4) If