Aristotelianism

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotelianism

 

¨Aristotelianism (/ˌærɪstəˈtliənɪzəm/ ARR-i-stə-TEE-lee-ə-niz-əm) is a tradition of philosophy that takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. This school of thought is in the modern sense of philosophy, covering existence, ethics, mind and related subjects. In Aristotle’s time, philosophy included natural philosophy, which preceded the advent of modern science during the Scientific Revolution. The works of Aristotle were initially defended by the members of the Peripatetic schooland later on by the Neoplatonists, who produced many commentaries on Aristotle’s writings. In the Islamic Golden AgeAvicenna and Averroes translated the works of Aristotle into Arabic and under them, along with philosophers such as Al-Kindi and Al-Farabi, Aristotelianism became a major part of early Islamic philosophy.

Moses Maimonides adopted Aristotelianism from the Islamic scholars and based his famous Guide for the Perplexed on it and that became the basis of Jewish scholastic philosophy. Although some of Aristotle’s logical works were known to western Europe, it was not until the Latin translations of the 12th century that the works of Aristotle and his Arabic commentators became widely available. Scholars such as Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas interpreted and systematized Aristotle’s works in accordance with Christian theology.

After retreating under criticism from modern natural philosophers, the distinctively Aristotelian idea of teleology was transmitted through Wolff and Kant to Hegel, who applied it to history as a totality. Although this project was criticized by Trendelenburg and Brentano as non-Aristotelian, Hegel’s influence is now often said to be responsible for an important Aristotelian influence upon Marx. Postmodernists, in contrast, reject Aristotelianism’s claim to reveal important theoretical truths. In this, they follow Heidegger‘s critique of Aristotle as the greatest source of the entire tradition of Western philosophy.¨

Double Dutch and Yiddish,please speak me.

I’m a linguistic scholar
You should hear me holler
Latin, Greek and Hebrew I love three

I am mentally insane
I don’t know my own name
French and Anglo-Saxon, what ? It’s free!

I  am Danish by descent
Something I resent
The Vikings were my people? I’m at sea!

School and college days
Language will amaze
Double Dutch and Yiddish,please speak me.

The Normans were not French
Enough to make me blench
Scholarship and college are absent.

But Yiddish was wiped out
It’s gone without a doubt
Hitler,hate is always voluntary.

All our European Jews
I heard it on the News
We killed them and it was done  so quietly.

Whatever tongue we speak
Meaning from it leaks
Constantine was Christian, ain’t that sweet?

Barbaric as we are
We’ll not get very far
If we believe we’re better than we be

Enforced by  torture grim
We became Christian
It don’t go very deep,I can now see.

Forced conversion stinks
And don’t create no links
Ah, how evil, wicked  Europe be

Stick to levity

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Your painting arrested me.
There aren´t enough police -people any more.I am  PC, you see.Eyes see.

I mean it stole my attention
So now itś a thief!

I am trying to compliment you
Let me know what is complementary to a man like myself

I mean I not He
Who is He?

I am not sure.
Look,I prefer Aristotelean logic.
Do  stop showing off.I prefer it fuzzy.
Well, your hair needs combing. I see..
How do you spell Aristotelian?
Keep to the spoken word and no worries
But I write letters
Draw them instead.

I am not a magnet,you know
Well, who are your followers?
They are not stuck on to me
Magnetic force is not glue
So the sun is not glued to the sky?
Did you think it was?
Well, we ŕe getting mixed up with gravity
Better to stick to levity
Godś own glue.Don´t hesitate.Be saved now
I am not money!
But you use it!
He who would transient be
Can use a plaster
A plasterer is more handy
With your face I so agree