Ennui
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 17 07:23:22 CDT 2001
And in MMV we have Ennui and Deliverance.
And a schickseh Mother, a Catholic, who delights in her
female cunning and who refutes Aquinas while half in the
bag in Hell's Kitchen.
Thomas Aquinas took Plato's reality, a noumenal reality,
but he took more from Plato's greatest student.
>From Aristotle he derived the doctrine that "nothing can be
reduced from potentiality to actuality, except by something
in a state of actuality." By treating existence itself as an
act, St. Thomas made all existence depend upon God whose
nature is his act of existing, and thus the creation
described in Genesis becomes the work of the reflexive
principle--functioning that causes functioning. Functioning
is thus, a principle and a cause, and a cause of itself.
Aquinas reads the book of Genisis as a God thinking (perhaps
some Eastern philosopher might have said, Dreaming) the
Universe.
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