(September 11, 2013 at 3:29 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: I can't seem to recall where, but I have an inkling that there is a real problem with trying to meld some Platonic and Aristotelian ideas, namely that of Aristotle's Prime Mover concept.
From what Feser wrote, Aristotle changed and refined the theory into his own, and this is the theory Feser argues for. Plato was for background.
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