Belacqua Wrote:I honestly don't see how you can argue against hylomorphism.I honestly don't see how it's relevant here.
Belacqua Wrote:Do you want to say that matter can exist without form?Obviously, the air you and I breathe right now is a matter but it doesn't have a form.
Belacqua Wrote:And if you argue that form can exist without matter, then you're on the side of those who say that soul can be disembodied -- something both Aristotle and Aquinas reject.Triangles exist, they don't have matter, but they have a form. I don't see how that implies souls exist.
Belacqua Wrote:it was the Thomist reintroduction of Aristotle into Europe that paved the way for empirical science.Scholastics, the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, is in many ways exactly the opposite of science. Somebody following a scientific method would ask himself how Aristotle came up with his ideas, realize that Aristotle hasn't followed the scientific method, and reject most of his philosophy a priori. Because that's what it is, a bunch of blind guessing that's very unlikely to be right. Thomas Aquinas, instead of trying to understand nature (by doing experiments), tried to understand Aristotle.