Re: Aristotle and Reality (was Re: Coffeehouse Guitar vs street-busker)

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

> Also, keep in mind that reality is largely subjective.  Aristotle 
> approaches Reality from an objective point of view.  I can think of two 
> consequences right offhand that fall from this; both as a consequence 
> owing to the fact that the human mind is a pattern-recognition engine.

Yes! That is a key point. Aristotle had to bind qualities to essense, 
otherwise he couldn't have done what he did so well, which was to 
categorize 
things and arrange them in a natural hierarchy.....which ended up 
influencing the concent of "The Chain of Being", which by the way was 
partially responsible for generating anti-evolutionary sentiments during 
the 
hay day of Darwin, Lamarch, etc.  A species was considered fixed and 
immutable on this chain of being. Of course, they had no idea of genetics 
until Mendel's pea experiments came along, which showed that species were 
mutable over time based on the mutation and mixing of the units of 
heredity. 
Figuratively speaking, Aristotle was rolling in his grave and the Greek 
philosopher Hericlitus, known for his theory of the flux (that all things 
change), was screaming horray!!!!

Hericlitus would have been a great looper. :)

K-