RE: Your position on naturalism
November 25, 2016 at 1:16 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2016 at 1:17 pm by Ignorant.)
(November 25, 2016 at 11:58 am)Whateverist Wrote: This all sounds very Platonic, the idea that every instance of something owes its existence to the pure, genuine thing which is not an instance but the pure form itself. I've never found Plato very convincing in this.
But it is also Aristotelian, in that every instance of something IS the "pure form" (i.e. the nature IS the form) on its way to perfection.
"Being", on the other hand, is not a "form" like human nature. "Being" is the most fundamental act any form can do if it is doing anything at all... to be.
The act-of-being is Platonic in the sense that every instance participates in it as "pure being". Things themselves are Aristotelian in that every instance IS the pure-form, participating in pure-being, on its way to completion.
I hold to a sort of synthesis of Platonism and Aristotelianism, made famous by Thomas Aquinas. Talking on this forum helps me identify the aspects that can be better articulated.
