This is quite literally the story of Europe’s intellectual transformation from the 16th to 18th centuries—the decay of Aristotelianism and the Scholastic Method.
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is quite literally the story of Europe’s intellectual transformation from the 16th to 18th centuries—the decay of Aristotelianism and the Scholastic Method.
aristotelianism? automatic red flag. no good
November 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
aristotelianism? automatic red flag. no good
rationalism vs. empiricism just seems like rehashed platonism vs. aristotelianism
December 6, 2024 at 3:17 AM
rationalism vs. empiricism just seems like rehashed platonism vs. aristotelianism
aristotelianism is just common sense formalized. like, everyone knows that some people naturally deserve to be slaves, and that others are morally irredeemable trash.
May 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
aristotelianism is just common sense formalized. like, everyone knows that some people naturally deserve to be slaves, and that others are morally irredeemable trash.
[SIPS bibliography] A new review in the Ancient Science section of our online bibliography on Giouli Korobili and Roberto Le Presti (ed), Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social by @arnaudmace.bsky.social
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June 17, 2025 at 9:14 AM
[SIPS bibliography] A new review in the Ancient Science section of our online bibliography on Giouli Korobili and Roberto Le Presti (ed), Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism, @degruyterbrill.bsky.social by @arnaudmace.bsky.social
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📢 New Advance article at HPLA: Suf Amichay, Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s use of the Principle of Plenitude – a Case Study in Radical Aristotelianism
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July 22, 2025 at 5:25 AM
📢 New Advance article at HPLA: Suf Amichay, Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s use of the Principle of Plenitude – a Case Study in Radical Aristotelianism
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Battle for the Soul of the World
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“It was [Henry] Corbin's contention that European civilization experienced a "metaphysical catastrophe" as a result of what we might call the Great Disjunction ...”
~ Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel.
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“It was [Henry] Corbin's contention that European civilization experienced a "metaphysical catastrophe" as a result of what we might call the Great Disjunction ...”
~ Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel.
![An image containing a text quotation, with a pink rose and green leaves in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World, reads:
The Battle for the Soul of the World:
“It was [Henry] Corbin's contention that European civilization experienced a "metaphysical catastrophe" as a result of what we might call the Great Disjunction. This was signaled by the final triumph of the Aristotelianism of Averroes over Platonic and neo-Platonic cosmology championed by Avicenna. To the defeat of that cosmology is coupled the disappearance of the anima mundi, the Soul of the World. The catastrophic event that gave rise to modernity is the loss of the soul of the world ... [Corbin] warns us that the history of the West has been the theater for the battle for the soul of the World.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kxmqkqrpm2hfuswp7k5mqd6f/bafkreifbh4inqkzjhawcvciytdfznhlmba6vjvjl4n2ut2see7vvgdenya@jpeg)
July 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Battle for the Soul of the World
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“It was [Henry] Corbin's contention that European civilization experienced a "metaphysical catastrophe" as a result of what we might call the Great Disjunction ...”
~ Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel.
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“It was [Henry] Corbin's contention that European civilization experienced a "metaphysical catastrophe" as a result of what we might call the Great Disjunction ...”
~ Tom Cheetham, Green Man, Earth Angel.
What if Platonism and not Aristotelianism
I find myself curious, my fellow #SkyStorians: what is your favorite "What If...?" Alternate History Question/Scenario?
March 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
What if Platonism and not Aristotelianism
Word of the Hour: Aristotelianism - The philosophy of Aristotle otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Word of the Hour: Aristotelianism - The philosophy of Aristotle otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
In the latest issue of #HOPOS Caterina Agostini reviews Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin, eds.: Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
October 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
In the latest issue of #HOPOS Caterina Agostini reviews Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin, eds.: Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism: Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century.
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Too often, human cruelty is written off as mere nature. Philosophy after Aristotelianism must instigate a structural revolution within Monastic Ascent Literature in order for us to reconquer the mundus imaginalis together, collectively, as a wave like that embraced by Fourier or Laplace's Transform.
May 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Too often, human cruelty is written off as mere nature. Philosophy after Aristotelianism must instigate a structural revolution within Monastic Ascent Literature in order for us to reconquer the mundus imaginalis together, collectively, as a wave like that embraced by Fourier or Laplace's Transform.
Which is a shame because Aristotelianism - a kind of realism - is quite attractive.
April 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Which is a shame because Aristotelianism - a kind of realism - is quite attractive.
alexanderpruss.blogspot.com: Aristotelianism and transformative technology
The Aristotelian picture of us is that like other organisms, we
flourish in fulfilling our nature. Our nature specifies the proper way
of interacting with the world. We do not expect an organism’s nature to
specify p...
The Aristotelian picture of us is that like other organisms, we
flourish in fulfilling our nature. Our nature specifies the proper way
of interacting with the world. We do not expect an organism’s nature to
specify p...
July 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
alexanderpruss.blogspot.com: Aristotelianism and transformative technology
The Aristotelian picture of us is that like other organisms, we
flourish in fulfilling our nature. Our nature specifies the proper way
of interacting with the world. We do not expect an organism’s nature to
specify p...
The Aristotelian picture of us is that like other organisms, we
flourish in fulfilling our nature. Our nature specifies the proper way
of interacting with the world. We do not expect an organism’s nature to
specify p...
“The new sensibility does not threaten a regression from rationality to superstition; rather, it allows for expansion beyond the one-sided worldview that scientism has provided us over the last three hundred years ...”
~ Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets.
~ Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets.
September 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
“The new sensibility does not threaten a regression from rationality to superstition; rather, it allows for expansion beyond the one-sided worldview that scientism has provided us over the last three hundred years ...”
~ Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets.
~ Victoria Nelson, The Secret Life of Puppets.
eudaemonia
noun
eu·dae·mo·nia ˌyüdēˈmōnēə
1: WELL-BEING, HAPPINESS
2 Aristotelianism : a life of activity governed by reason
Etymology
Greek eudaimonia, from eudaimon-, eudaimōn having a good attendant or indwelling spirit, lucky, happy (from eu- + daimon-, daimōn spirit) + -ia -y
noun
eu·dae·mo·nia ˌyüdēˈmōnēə
1: WELL-BEING, HAPPINESS
2 Aristotelianism : a life of activity governed by reason
Etymology
Greek eudaimonia, from eudaimon-, eudaimōn having a good attendant or indwelling spirit, lucky, happy (from eu- + daimon-, daimōn spirit) + -ia -y
February 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
eudaemonia
noun
eu·dae·mo·nia ˌyüdēˈmōnēə
1: WELL-BEING, HAPPINESS
2 Aristotelianism : a life of activity governed by reason
Etymology
Greek eudaimonia, from eudaimon-, eudaimōn having a good attendant or indwelling spirit, lucky, happy (from eu- + daimon-, daimōn spirit) + -ia -y
noun
eu·dae·mo·nia ˌyüdēˈmōnēə
1: WELL-BEING, HAPPINESS
2 Aristotelianism : a life of activity governed by reason
Etymology
Greek eudaimonia, from eudaimon-, eudaimōn having a good attendant or indwelling spirit, lucky, happy (from eu- + daimon-, daimōn spirit) + -ia -y
Ah yeah that’s a bit of an internal Lonergan-ism, sorry. There’s some residual aristotelianism at work, specifying conscious acts/operations based on their objects vice versa. So you become conscious of color by acts of seeing, but you become cs of ideas by acts of understanding
November 22, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Ah yeah that’s a bit of an internal Lonergan-ism, sorry. There’s some residual aristotelianism at work, specifying conscious acts/operations based on their objects vice versa. So you become conscious of color by acts of seeing, but you become cs of ideas by acts of understanding
[Hissing] Neo-Aristotelianism
October 31, 2023 at 12:26 AM
[Hissing] Neo-Aristotelianism
I was studying to become a Catholic Priest, a prerequisite for a Masters in Divinity, which was a minor degree in Philosophy. I really took to Thomistic and Aristotelianism Philosophy.
December 2, 2024 at 6:31 PM
I was studying to become a Catholic Priest, a prerequisite for a Masters in Divinity, which was a minor degree in Philosophy. I really took to Thomistic and Aristotelianism Philosophy.
Marxists are the Thomists of sociology. they are scholastic, dogmatic, and offer a bastardized imitation of an older tradition: one that has all the downsides of generic functionalism with none of its upsides. just as Thomists offer a mutilated Aristotelianism best replaced by its generic shadow.
July 10, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Marxists are the Thomists of sociology. they are scholastic, dogmatic, and offer a bastardized imitation of an older tradition: one that has all the downsides of generic functionalism with none of its upsides. just as Thomists offer a mutilated Aristotelianism best replaced by its generic shadow.
imo from a lefty angle, blackledge did some interesting work in trying to generate a revolutionary aristotelianism as a project, and you can see that he aligns with it in ETHICS, but i think the issue was that so many Thomists found AV and WJWR as the cheatcodes to demolishing modern ethics.
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
imo from a lefty angle, blackledge did some interesting work in trying to generate a revolutionary aristotelianism as a project, and you can see that he aligns with it in ETHICS, but i think the issue was that so many Thomists found AV and WJWR as the cheatcodes to demolishing modern ethics.
Word of the Hour: Aristotelianism - The philosophy of Aristotle otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
November 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Word of the Hour: Aristotelianism - The philosophy of Aristotle otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
Apropos of nothing, it struck me when reading up on Philippa Foot (for someone so renowned for neo-Aristotelianism and Catholicism, NOT concerned with Thomism) how critical she was to 20th century continental philosophy’s exhausting hard-on for obtuse edge-hypothetical thought experiments
Nothing on Ohio in the Times today today but we DO have a “Liberal Case for Natalism”
September 16, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Apropos of nothing, it struck me when reading up on Philippa Foot (for someone so renowned for neo-Aristotelianism and Catholicism, NOT concerned with Thomism) how critical she was to 20th century continental philosophy’s exhausting hard-on for obtuse edge-hypothetical thought experiments
Could Aristotelianism inform a (positive) Luddite ethos? And what can we learn about AI and the future of work by thinking along with Aristotle? Join us next week at the Positive Luddism reading group as we explore these (and more) questions 👇
Looking forward to the next Positive Luddism reading group (w. Alberto Romele and @annanosthoff.bsky.social) session with @siapka.bsky.social on December 4th (6pm)
We'll discuss her great work on "Work, AI, and Aristotle."
Want to join? Send me a message!
We'll discuss her great work on "Work, AI, and Aristotle."
Want to join? Send me a message!
November 27, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Could Aristotelianism inform a (positive) Luddite ethos? And what can we learn about AI and the future of work by thinking along with Aristotle? Join us next week at the Positive Luddism reading group as we explore these (and more) questions 👇
...Telos? Fucking Aristotelianism continues to wreak havoc.
March 2, 2024 at 9:30 PM
...Telos? Fucking Aristotelianism continues to wreak havoc.