(March 19, 2018 at 3:39 am)pocaracas Wrote: Holy crap!
I've been reading a book by a fellow called Feser, a philosopher, talking about Aristotle and Aquinas, and the parallels to the OP are astonishing!
He goes into triangularity to describe an abstract concept; a ball breaking a window to account for instantaneous (read timeless) causation and he did make the jump from abstract concepts (forms) exist and are not represented by anything physical (there are no perfect triangles or circles in the real world), a mind capable of thinking about forms cannot (??) be represented by something in the real world, hence a person's abstract reasoning capability is then defined as "soul".
And there's more, since abstract notions (forms) exist in the absence of reality (?!), and the ultimate form is that of the intellect, the abstract reasoning, then the ultimate abstract reason is what gets defined as god.
Who had to generate all the souls that have ever been and ever will be in a timeless manner so they can then populate every single real mind capable of abstract thought.
Yeah, I know I can't use those big bs words.
It’s okay; you use big words that actually mean something.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
