Max Montoya
@maxmontoya.bsky.social
Naturalist Philosopher interested in Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, Santayana, Popper, Evolutionary Epistemology, Evolutionary Psychology, Philosophy of Politics (Radical Enlightenment), Art (Matisse, Picasso), Music (Mozart, Richard Strauss, Scofield), Law.
Rufus Suter's on Aristotle and the Scientific Method, a glorious 5-Page Article for all Philosophers and Scientists: sci-hub.st/https://www....
June 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Rufus Suter's on Aristotle and the Scientific Method, a glorious 5-Page Article for all Philosophers and Scientists: sci-hub.st/https://www....
Energy is Power and Oil is War: 'Strikingly, I find that between one-quarter and one-half of interstate wars since the beginning of the modern oil age in 1973 are connected to one or more of these oil-related causal mechanisms. No other commodity has this kind of impact on international security.'
June 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Energy is Power and Oil is War: 'Strikingly, I find that between one-quarter and one-half of interstate wars since the beginning of the modern oil age in 1973 are connected to one or more of these oil-related causal mechanisms. No other commodity has this kind of impact on international security.'
François-René de Chateaubriand, Sketches of English Literature (pub. 1836).
June 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
François-René de Chateaubriand, Sketches of English Literature (pub. 1836).
[F]or Aristotle, all the investigations he explicitly assigns to ontology are interconnected and at the same time concern the conceptual apparatus necessary for making Reality intelligible and the structure Reality must possess in order that it may be talked about.—Lambertus M. de Rijk (2002).
June 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
[F]or Aristotle, all the investigations he explicitly assigns to ontology are interconnected and at the same time concern the conceptual apparatus necessary for making Reality intelligible and the structure Reality must possess in order that it may be talked about.—Lambertus M. de Rijk (2002).
If I am right, melancholy is inseparable from Virgil's poetic temperament. The Orpheus story anticipates the melancholy of the Aeneid, the epic of suffering, loss and sacrifice.—Magda El-Nowieemy, "Alexandria versus Rome in the Aristaeus of Virgil (Georg. IV. 315-558)" at
June 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If I am right, melancholy is inseparable from Virgil's poetic temperament. The Orpheus story anticipates the melancholy of the Aeneid, the epic of suffering, loss and sacrifice.—Magda El-Nowieemy, "Alexandria versus Rome in the Aristaeus of Virgil (Georg. IV. 315-558)" at
Source: Science Adviser, today 04/06/2026.
June 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Source: Science Adviser, today 04/06/2026.
[C]onsciousness gives meaning to existence ... In this sense, we participate in a process whereby the universe observes itself ... Consciousness and matter are intertwined in mind. Through the evolution of matter, consciousness is given *form*. —Max Velmans. This sounds Aristotelian and Santayanian.
June 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
[C]onsciousness gives meaning to existence ... In this sense, we participate in a process whereby the universe observes itself ... Consciousness and matter are intertwined in mind. Through the evolution of matter, consciousness is given *form*. —Max Velmans. This sounds Aristotelian and Santayanian.
This is the difference between Radical Enlightenment and Socialism: that without educating the majority, any revolution ends in tyranny, as clerics and propaganda manipulate them. Gramsci adopted the Radical Enlightenment position: that education changes the world. Cf. the Feuerbach Thesis refuted.
June 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is the difference between Radical Enlightenment and Socialism: that without educating the majority, any revolution ends in tyranny, as clerics and propaganda manipulate them. Gramsci adopted the Radical Enlightenment position: that education changes the world. Cf. the Feuerbach Thesis refuted.
The complex organization of life begins with atoms, the basic units of matter. Atoms combine to form small molecules, which then join to form larger molecules within a cell, the smallest, most basic unit of life. Although a cell is alive, it is made of nonliving molecules. —Essentials of Biology.
June 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The complex organization of life begins with atoms, the basic units of matter. Atoms combine to form small molecules, which then join to form larger molecules within a cell, the smallest, most basic unit of life. Although a cell is alive, it is made of nonliving molecules. —Essentials of Biology.
Cuando veo al PP de Madrid me acuerdo de las Sevillanas que conocí hace años. Pensaban ellas que por ser de Sevilla sabían más que uno de pueblo de la costa de Huelva que era surfer y compadre de gaviotas en Winter. Las niñas eran unas paletas de urbe y no habían leído nada. Pero se pensaban Diosas.
June 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Cuando veo al PP de Madrid me acuerdo de las Sevillanas que conocí hace años. Pensaban ellas que por ser de Sevilla sabían más que uno de pueblo de la costa de Huelva que era surfer y compadre de gaviotas en Winter. Las niñas eran unas paletas de urbe y no habían leído nada. Pero se pensaban Diosas.
[W]e have all learned ... from climate change to the COVID-19 pandemic ... that we as a society [should] not only become more scientifically literate but also appreciate the importance of the process of scientific thought and the roles of scientists in our culture. —Preface.
June 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
[W]e have all learned ... from climate change to the COVID-19 pandemic ... that we as a society [should] not only become more scientifically literate but also appreciate the importance of the process of scientific thought and the roles of scientists in our culture. —Preface.
La Extinción del Pérmico separó la era Paleozoica de la Mesozoica por su Letalidad. (En el gráfico, la columna Final P ocurre en el Pérmico en Rojo). Hemos inyectado tal cantidad de CO2 en la atmósfera para vivir un Pérmico Revisited. Otros piensan que la Tierra cambiará a un planeta tipo Venus.
June 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
La Extinción del Pérmico separó la era Paleozoica de la Mesozoica por su Letalidad. (En el gráfico, la columna Final P ocurre en el Pérmico en Rojo). Hemos inyectado tal cantidad de CO2 en la atmósfera para vivir un Pérmico Revisited. Otros piensan que la Tierra cambiará a un planeta tipo Venus.
During much of his long life, he was the nexus of the scientific world. Knowledge, Humboldt believed, had to be shared, exchanged and made available to everybody. —Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature (London: John Murray, 2015), p. 3.
June 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
During much of his long life, he was the nexus of the scientific world. Knowledge, Humboldt believed, had to be shared, exchanged and made available to everybody. —Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature (London: John Murray, 2015), p. 3.
Aristotle's aim in using division, again, does not seem to be classification, but definition. —David Balme (1972, 1992: 105). This is the great breakthrough of Balme's Aristotelian Biology: to explain that the purpose is not to classify but to know the causes-functions (essences) of living things.
May 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Aristotle's aim in using division, again, does not seem to be classification, but definition. —David Balme (1972, 1992: 105). This is the great breakthrough of Balme's Aristotelian Biology: to explain that the purpose is not to classify but to know the causes-functions (essences) of living things.
'Structure informs Function' ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-01... or as Aristotle said: Form (Structure) Causes Teleology (Function). The difference between Modern Biology and Aristotle's Biology is that for Aristo Forms were Eternal, not a transitional Trope of Matter in Movement:
May 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
'Structure informs Function' ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-01... or as Aristotle said: Form (Structure) Causes Teleology (Function). The difference between Modern Biology and Aristotle's Biology is that for Aristo Forms were Eternal, not a transitional Trope of Matter in Movement:
Prince's Opera Prima *For You* (April 1978). A Beautiful Album. 'So Blue' is a Charming, Bluesy-Jazzy Theme Worth the Whole Album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeWs....
May 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Prince's Opera Prima *For You* (April 1978). A Beautiful Album. 'So Blue' is a Charming, Bluesy-Jazzy Theme Worth the Whole Album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeWs....
Schopenhauer's Shadow was large during the second-half of the XIX century: 'Essentially, because life is an illness, everything that we call philosophy, science, morality, art, poetry, etc., etc., is nothing but soothing medicine'
—Turgenev, 1861, letter to Countess Elizaveta Egorovna Lambert.
—Turgenev, 1861, letter to Countess Elizaveta Egorovna Lambert.
May 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Schopenhauer's Shadow was large during the second-half of the XIX century: 'Essentially, because life is an illness, everything that we call philosophy, science, morality, art, poetry, etc., etc., is nothing but soothing medicine'
—Turgenev, 1861, letter to Countess Elizaveta Egorovna Lambert.
—Turgenev, 1861, letter to Countess Elizaveta Egorovna Lambert.
Hoy ha llegado la Calufa (sin Estufa): 22/05. Nos quedan 4 meses de Ghost in the Shell or Hell:
May 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Hoy ha llegado la Calufa (sin Estufa): 22/05. Nos quedan 4 meses de Ghost in the Shell or Hell:
MIT Biology Course: Lecture 2: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Interactions; Lipids and Membranes: Basic covalent Bondings: Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur. Water being essential as the element to make those Covalent Bondings effective. Cf. ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-01...
May 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
MIT Biology Course: Lecture 2: Chemical Bonding and Molecular Interactions; Lipids and Membranes: Basic covalent Bondings: Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur. Water being essential as the element to make those Covalent Bondings effective. Cf. ocw.mit.edu/courses/7-01...
Latin Word of the Day:
May 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Latin Word of the Day:
Classical Greek Word of the Day:
May 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Classical Greek Word of the Day:
Stephen Hawking dijo una vez que si la humanidad pretendía sobrevivir a largo plazo, debería encontrar la forma de salir de la Tierra; sin embargo, era optimista al respecto y el tiempo, en efecto, le ha dado la razón. —Géminis, peli de ficción. En realidad, no se puede salir de la Tierra y vivir.
May 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Stephen Hawking dijo una vez que si la humanidad pretendía sobrevivir a largo plazo, debería encontrar la forma de salir de la Tierra; sin embargo, era optimista al respecto y el tiempo, en efecto, le ha dado la razón. —Géminis, peli de ficción. En realidad, no se puede salir de la Tierra y vivir.
I rather like this quote from the book:
May 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I rather like this quote from the book:
it is not clear, and whenever one reads an unclear paragraph one knows that the writer is not thinking clearly him- or herself. Pierre Aubenque has some very good ideas on phronesis and the ethical moment in life (kairós, the chance of matter, of movement). Jessica Moss's work is very clarifying.
May 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
it is not clear, and whenever one reads an unclear paragraph one knows that the writer is not thinking clearly him- or herself. Pierre Aubenque has some very good ideas on phronesis and the ethical moment in life (kairós, the chance of matter, of movement). Jessica Moss's work is very clarifying.
Alina Ibragimova, Ladies and Lollipops... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCv3...
May 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Alina Ibragimova, Ladies and Lollipops... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCv3...