Rethinking the Nature of Substance

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Tag: Aristotle

  • Rudolf Steiner’s Ethers

    Rudolf Steiner’s Ethers

    I believe Rudolf Steiner has said (I forget where) that we should work things out for ourselves and not take his word as Gospel. So, without the benefit of being able to read directly from the Akasha chronicle, how might I accept the possibility of peripheral etheric forces? If an idea is universal, it is…

  • Reality, Truth and Revelation

    Reality, Truth and Revelation

    For whatever reasons, few realists have described themselves as such and most philosophical writing on realism has been against the beliefs of others. Whatever we believe is real, is something that we normally take for granted as true; it lies at the unspoken foundation of our worldview. This is why I believe it is important.…

  • [Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4

    [Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4

    Technological innovations may have been developed by this time, but their conception was not seen as we do today. They were not created or understood by means of abstract thought, but through imaginative (creative, but exact) thought pictures…

  • Ancient Greek Insights

    Ancient Greek Insights

    I am sad to say that I have chosen to completely rewrite my early drafts of prehistoric and Ancient Greek history almost in their entirety. They are to be replaced by two new and hopefully more relevant chapters. Their replacements concentrate on the possibly controversial Idea of Plato’s Philosopher…

  • [Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance

    [Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance

    A draft version of a deprecated chapter about the later classical philosophers, including the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle and the Epicureans…

  • Outline of Book

    Outline of Book

    In which I introduce the main themes of the book: Biodynamics and Rudolf Steiner’s indications for a hidden alchemy in living processes; The taming of the atom – a sub-natural phenomenon; Biological transmutation of chemical elements and the requirement for a new Goethean scientific worldview.

  • [Old] Rethinking Biological Transmutations – My Story so far…

    [Old] Rethinking Biological Transmutations – My Story so far…

    Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. I am getting bogged down with my first chapter. It largely covers Ancient Greek philosophical insights into many of the important matters that are to be explored in later chapters of this book. Every single one of these philosophers (at least the most significant figures up to and including Aristotle)…

  • [Old] Book Two: Goethe, Steiner and the Ancient Greeks – or – Rethinking the Nature of Substance

    [Old] Book Two: Goethe, Steiner and the Ancient Greeks – or – Rethinking the Nature of Substance

    This book – if I even manage to write it(!) – will be a big philosophical work. I intend it to be based on a number of ideas and indications I discovered in the course of my researches on the original book…

  • [Old] Greek & Medieval Ideas

    [Old] Greek & Medieval Ideas

    Ancient Greek physics – developing an understanding of knowledge – epistemology – and the natural world – physics – a world of beings – entities which exist – Plato and Aristotle expressed the same holistic ideas – from different perspectives. The essence of things – ousia – thinghood. Also the concepts of matter, atoms, and…