A paradigm is how people in some culture locally perceive reality, their view of the world.
Example The Western World: 'Rationality' is strengthened by repeating ('rational' parents, 'rational' Google, 'rational' Wikipedia, 'rational' worksettings, 'rational' teaching school, 'universities' as 'rational' churches, 'rational' media, 'rational' politicians,...).
Aristotle as the most influential figure in Western thought is considered the father of scientific terminology.
Aristotle was THE philosophic and scientific authority for medieval Arabs and Europeans.
Aristotle this way in The Catholic World
and in the Mohammedan world (not in ALL of Islam)
caused a paradigm shift into the tough Aristotelian Paradigm, that until now lasted 2500 years.
Parallel views on life (partly essentially different) are found in subcultures in Middle East, Buddhist Asia, Polynesia, Africa, Indian South America, ...
God-like is an IDEA and causes the BELIEF in Supremacy
For Aristotle physical life (un godlike) grounds all human knowledge.
But Aristotle also believes that reality = material reality + meta-reality.
This peculiar combination of physics + god-like reality is called metaphysics.
REASONING (= repetitive metaphysical noises) makes Aristotle BELIEVE that 'god-like reality =
'un godlike reality + anima' = animal reality + anima = 'spiritual reality' = supremacy
and is immaterial cause of 'sensible reality' (= 'un god-like reality' = animal reality).
Or: animal reality + anima = material reality + god-like reality
god-like = anima (= breath; spirit; mind) = fantasy, like believing to be 'Batman' |
Apartheid: 100% man = man + anima = slave owner, manager, ..in 'mind' connection with supermind 'god'
man = ape with inferior spirit = slave, employee, ..bodily related with apes, mind connected with 'devil'
Situation in history
399 BC Execution of Socrates
398 BC--King Arnuwanda V of Hatti (say Turkey) grants full independence to the Greek cities on the
coast of Anatolia. This begins a new period of many years of Greek-Hittite cooperation
367 BC Aristotle enters the Academia of Plato.
359 Phillip II becomes King of Macedon. Phillip's makes his Macedonian Phalangites into professional soldiers, far better killing machines
than other armies (a kind of US Army).
352-322 BC India after ending Persian rule fragments into several kingdoms.
352 BC onward--In the newly independent Indian states, Hinduism becomes very
puritan and intolerant, and followers of many other beliefs are
persecuted.
342 BC onward Aristotle teaches 'anima' to Alexander the Terrible, the even more ambitious/agressive son of Phillip II of Macedon.
338 BC Philip II of Macedon declares war on Athens and Thebes (chief cities of the Greek coalition which
is allied to Hatti) and invades. Hitite forces turn the tide against Phillip of Macedon.
The Macedonian army is almost annihilated by the Hittites.
337 -- Peace treaty between Athens and Macedon. Hellenist League was founded by Philip II and agreed on war against Persia to avenge the wrongs of King Xerxes of Persia .
336 BC onward After the assasination of Philip II at age 46, the combination of young Alexander as leader of the Hellenic League, paranoid much older guru Aristotle, and Philip's very professional killing machine army becomes a disaster for especially Persia
The Law is Reason without Emotion
Alexander The Terrible worshipped Aristotle (Head of his own "Lyceum") like Adolf the Horrible admired Wernher von Braun (later Head of "NASA").
The dictator Hitler annihilitated mainly the mass of Jews (not the very rich), but the innocent looking young handsome blue eyed dictator Alexander especially murdered leading Persian Zoroastrians.
This 'spiritual' teenager followed motto: "The Law is Reason without Emotion".
Aristotle grew up on a slave-farm and could not imagine a society without slavery, like a 21st century dairy-farmer can't imagine milk without cows.
Aristotle learned to see slaves as inevitable servants to do the work for THE Masters, just like most 'thinking' 'managers' are helpless
in a world without 'working' 'employees'.
Aristotle distinguishes 'reason' and emotion.
Emotion as in animal way directly reacting on sense perception
'Reason' interprets sense perceptions and is by Aristotle seen as 'the source of all 'knowledge''.
That 'intuition' does exactly the same job, but endlesly more complex, was completely overseen.
Aristotle's view of knowledge was limited to his own cultural prejudices. That's why Aristotle saw slavery as 'natural'
With Aristotle as 'spiritual' guideline Roman big slave owners felt 'spiritful' = 'aristocratic'.
This simplistic 'supremacy' view faded away, but ages later this ego-thinking was revived by the 'aristocrat' monk Thomas de Aquinas, who saw
Aristote as 'THE philosopher'.
The Catholic Church realized very well, that many ideas of Aristotle were VERY dubious.
In 1277 many of Aristotle's ideas even were condemned as 'heretic' by the Roman Christian Church.
But the totally dominant 'aristocratic' circles in The Church very much liked Aristotle's clever explanation of 'slavery' as natural behavior.
Thomas Aquinas (the model teacher of catholic priesthood) rehabilitated Aristotle's ideas so as to make them safe for Roman Christian consumption.
Catholicism started as a powertool of 'aristocracy' and this way
restrengthened the bonds. The Church became a subculture in Western culture, devoted to
serving zarah2nds in power. A rigid subparadigm as anchor within another paradigm.
Non-sense in a 21st century science text: Plato is an absolute universal realist while Aristotle sees reality as relative to the physical world.
Zarah2nd: I have no clue what is a 'absolute universal realist', but Plato's soul exists
in BEHAVIOR Aristotle's soul is th IDEA 'harmony of senses'.
Aristotle's belief in immaterial 'anima' (supremacy) is not relative at all.
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The Church as hidden Power-tool
The hidden role of The Church as 'tool of power' became even more 'foggy'.
Resulting in heavy resistance of The Church against
equality for women and for the 'lower classes'.
Catholicism and especially Protestantism in the 'western world' became world-views based on 'white supremacy'/'parasitism by a relatively small superior
feeling 'divine' club of 'whites in power' (The Chosen People = The Exploiters).
There is an Order of Alexander the Great,
dedicated to the international promotion of Freedom, Justice, and Peace
with honory member former President Ronald Reagan, who with billions of tax money supported
right wing supremacy worldwide (Chili, Argentine, Guatemala, Nicaragua, ..., Israel, Afghanistan, ...).
Throughout his presidency, Reagan supported the apartheid government in South Africa and even labeled Nelson Mandela's African National Congress as a notorious terrorist organization.
zarah2nd: it makes more sense to notice that the top of the US Army is 'criminally' prejudiced,
and in deviant paradigm way creates and maintains conflicts worldwide
(in common sense cultures seen as criminally paranoid). In this prejudiced behavior US Army was preceded by 'aristocrats' behind the British Army and
commanding catholic armies. The catholic leaders introduced 'Inquisition'.
The British Army introduced 'hell camps' (concentration camps). US Army labeled 'hell camps' for Red Indians
as 'reservates', and is until now the ONLY army who used atom bombs in wartime.
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Dominant and Submissive
In nature dominant and submissive behavior are extremes of family-behavior, and strengthen family bonds.
Every member is protected in The Family, and alpha-animals act as 'sheperds' by using natural talents like strenght and skill.
| The matriarchs in ancient Celtic culture were alpha-animals |
'Ritual Roles' = ALL members assist The Family in surviving volcanos, earthquakes, zombies.......
It is not the goal to accuse Aristotle as person, that would be using exactly his CONFLICT view of reality.
Only to show that local paradigms (dominant basics of a local culture) are like swamps.
In a swamp you are free to move, nevertheless you drown.
Looking back in linear way (at ethical swamps) has no use if in the meantime paradigm shifts changed the relative position
of those ethical swamps.
Periodically (in periods of recession) it is wise to do a complete cleanup of swamps, using common sense.
Of course Aristotle was in his own surroundings a genius.
Nevertheless his Macedonian swamp-VIEWS (together with his status as super-genius, and help of catholic fans like Thomas Aquinas) prolonged supremacy/slavery for 2.000 years.
Whatever one thinks of Aristotle, fact is that in his own time he was hated by most of the common Greek outside power-circles. |
The western godfather Aristotle of Superkiller Alexander the Great studied family-behavior (nature),
but could not make sense of dominants who SERVED a family. Aristotle tried to give sense to his surroundings where THE superior Hellinist Greek
exploited 'inferior barbarians' (zarah2nd: 21st-century PuertoRicans are slaves of US citizens).
Aristotle saw 'exploitation' made into caste system in Hinduism
as 'Hindu virtue', close to his own dream arete ('superiority').
Aristotle with homemade arrogance replaced evolutional dominance with BIGGER THAN LIFE 'logical superiority' = 'exploitation' (in later Catholicism referred to as 'pure ego'; parasitism formalized in The Western World).
Aristotle's rich family served 'logically superior' slave-hunters who exploited 'logical slaves' + environment (zarah2nd: like 21st century Exxon, IBM, a tiny but catastrophal sidestep of evolution)
Tip of zarah2nd: Read 'slaves' as 'cows', in Aristotle's home made logic 'barbarians' were similar to 21st century cows.
Cow-traders don't doubt about farmers being superior to cows and trade in cowmeat (like many 21st century Africans trade in 'bushmeat'),
superiority logic using slave-traders measure slaves in 'pounds of muscles'
(for labor [and when pleasing the master's eyes] as submissive alife sextoy).
Factory owners don't doubt about capitalists being superior to 'workers' (economic slaves), and measure 'employees' in dollars 'profit'.
During a recession, 'profits' fall to zero dollars, both 'rational' capitalists and 'rational' workers are reset to common sense humans. |
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From common sense to 'spirituality'
The turn from Plato to Aristotle, indirectly leading to Catholicism, was disastrous. It created an ego-istic Western World,
believing in superior dreaming (immaterial 'thinking' or 'understanding').
Plato essentially believed in the relativity of moral codes.
Aristotle saw 'talking superior' as 'spiritual' = 'god-given' (absolutism).
And this superior god designed by Aristotle preferred Macedonians and Greek.
In fact Arisotle made a split between intuition (soul, ...) and his IDEA anima (soul, spirit, mind, ...). The notion 'soul' very confusingly at present is used both as 'intuition', and as 'mind'.
And Aristotle saw Hellenists running slavefarms (hell camps = concentration camps or reservates; filled with 'Amazones', Egyptians, Turks, Persians, Africans, ...) as 'superior humans parasiting on 'barbarians' ('inferior' human animals).
Similar to southern US farmers in the 18th 19th and early 20th centuries (slavery period) who saw black slaves
as 'living meat' (good for free muscle-power and sex). And similar to 21st century farmers in the US Bible Belt
who see slavery of thousands of cows as innocent behavior. Seeing cows as beings with emotions still needs time, but seeing ALL human animals as friendly intelligent
beings in the 21st century should have been human common sense.
Already in Roman times some common sense historians realized that dividing the world in WE and 'pagan' was aimed at exploitation and awfully destructive.
| In over 20 ages skill improved tremendously but ritual behavior
in Western circles in 2.000 years only got a lot more rigid (religious).
Asian and African Roman slaves in the 21st century have become
Chinese, Philippine, Puerto Rican, Mexican ... underpaid servants of US-Empire citizens. 'Human animals' now show totally submissive behavior under ritual Western Democracy.
Tamed 'cheap muscle meat' slaves struggle worldwide on 'projects' of western human animals of subclass 'Superior' and tamed sex-flesh slaves are performing sex rituals in generally awfully dirty 'commercial' 'prostitution' temples all over the Western World |
| Making sense in The Western World of guys like Socrates and Plato
is almost impossible after the Paradigm Shift in The Western World to the Aristotelian Paradigm.
Then before you realize you are judging Socrates/Plato through Aristotelian eyes |
Plato - Paradigm Shift - Aristotle
Major paradigm shifts in history are like walls.
Many words before and after the shift have different meanings, and sentences completely different meanings.
Comparison is useless. Aristotle's account of Platonism was`seen from Plato's Classic Greece non-sense
Without comment a few quotes of Plato and Aristotle
Common Sense
Ratio
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
The law is reason, free from passion.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
We make war that we may live in peace.
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A hero is born among a 100, a wise man is found among a 1.000,
but an accomplished one might not be found even among a 100.000 men.
All men are by nature equal, [..] as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals,
seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Aristotle and Slavery
The Logic of the lonely Snake in the Paradise: killing out of 'egoism'
Superiority = Thymos = The Spirit in us = Immaterial Life'
Superiority = Farming of Human-Animals = Natural Paracitism is Aristotle's explanation for human animal exploitation.
'Thymos' was a notion invented by Aristotle in his defense of 'natural slavery'.
'Thymos' seems related to 'courage'. The 'warrior class' in the Republic has
a lot of 'thymos'. Aristotle considered natural slaves exploited by natural masters as natural dualism.
Thymos = 'master quality', 'breath' or 'warrior spirit', warrior aggression, being fierce, desire to dominate,
thirst for glory. 'Thymos' was a mix of 'warrior-courage', and 'feeling invincable'.
The 'willpower' of an agressive Superman.
Male 'Humans' with 'thymos'(talking super-apes) have dominant 'superman spirits' and
exploit 'barbarians' and women (non-greek apes with 'slave spirit').
Men rule naturally over women, and Greek super-apes over inferior barbarian apes.
| zarah2nd: As son of a farmer I realize that for many farmers feeling superior to cows is way of life.
Like trading in cows and getting a high price for cow-milk
is a way of life. Killing all cows in Persia would be done by US Army 'efficiently' with 'Superior Force' on command of The President. Ending the slavery of humans as practiced by Roman Christians, Mohammedans (Muslim Catholicism) and Hindus is
complex and very emotional. Respectful and mutually useful coexisting of human-mammals and
other mammals for humans is hugely complex.
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Aristotle had a law and order at all costs view of life, because of growing up at Macedononian Court very near to the household of the cruel dictator King Philip (Filippos) of Macedon.
In Aristotle's fantasy immaterial 'breath' (divine 'spirits') from heaven as benign parasites control the 'soul' of superior humans,
and implicitly decide a dual 'natural law' (high quality 'breath 'superior humans' run farms of 'evil' low quality 'breath' 'barbarians').
At Plato's death, because of very dubious and agressive views Aristotle was not appointed head of Plato's open minded common sense 'Academy' but Plato's nephew Speusippus.
A 'subtile' reprimand. Xenocrates followed Speusippes at death..
Of course between Plato and his student Aristotle is the IDEA 'friendship', but ignoring Aristotle as candidate successor is clear BEHAVIOR.
Interesting quote of Aristotle about Masters and slaves:
.. he who can be, and therefore is, another's and he who participates
in rational principle enough to apprehend, but not to have, such a principle, is a slave
by nature. Whereas the lower animals cannot even apprehend a principle;
they obey their instincts. And indeed the use made of slaves and of tame animals is
not very different; for both with their bodies minister to the needs of life.
...It is clear, then, that some men are by nature free, and others slaves,
and that for these latter slavery is both expedient and right
Thymos:
Samuel P. Hungtington: the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values
or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
Aristotle's Paradox
The Logic of the lonely Snake in the Paradise: killing out of 'egoism'
Aristotle's Paradox: The belief in invisible immaterial talking beings (ghosts) proves that 'spirits' exist.
Aristotle meant: Slavehunters are dominant because 'spirits' tell them what to do ('Logical dominancy').
Superiority of slavehunters (individuals, egoists) is basic of life.
(zarah2nd: This is the 'logic' behind organized violence like 'Inquisition' and 'War on Terrorism'. The 20th century 'thinker' and protestant Jew Karl Popper would have considered this circular reasoning as 'rationally' NOT FALSE, because not falsifiable.
Although the same influential Karl Popper also whispered: in so far [a statement] is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
I wonder what the protestant Popper 'thought' about 'angels'.).
When close to age 40 Aristotle returned to the Macedonian Court in around 343 BC to tutor 17 year old Alexander the Great;
According to the historian Plutarch Aristotle as 'mental counselor' made cleverly use of his HUGE influence over the mind of the young prince.
Alexander of Macedonia plundered Persepolis (Takhet Jamshid)and then set fire to it in 330 BC
because , because common sense Persian Zoroastrianism considered both visible and invisible experience
as part of zarah2nd. In common sense immaterial things just don't exist.
Alexander is said to have carried away the treasures of 'Takhet Jamshid' on '20000 mules and 5000 camels'
.
It is likely that in this brutal childish way Alexander indicated to Persian nobles that their empire,
their days of glory were completely over, by thoroughly erasing their legendary ceremonial capital.
After Alexander conquered Athens, Aristotle with funds of Alexander set up a school of his own, known as the Lyceum. After Alexander's death, Athens rebelled against Macedonian rule, and to avoid death penalty Aristotle fled to his late mother's estate at Chalcis on the island of Euboea, and soon died at age 62.
It is 'aristotelian' to say: "An individual's highest faculty is 'understanding" (zarah2nd: 'spiritual' quality (virtual) that causes serial killing)
'Intelligence' only exists in behavior. Else it is immaterial (spiritual),and only imagination. Aristotle was the first 'Talking Head' (politician).
Saying "we come to bring peace" when for own 'profit' burning down cities, raping and killing, and enslaving the strong, is a case of DANGEROUS malicious hallucination..
Genocide Inventor
Organized Violence in Nightmares
Aristotle was an ancient version Hitler's top scientists Dr. Mengele and Dr. Wernher von Braun (later head of NASA).
That takes recognizing Alexander the 'Great' as 'Alexander the Cursed', an ancient version of Hitler.
Aristotle was a very clever and persistent researcher, but his essential IDEAS about biology (and inherently his IDEAS about 'Greek' slave tycoons being superior) invited genocide.
Aristotle believed that humans (the superior Greek) hosted immaterial 'spirits', and that non-Greek were human-animals without 'spirit' (barbarians).
So in Aristotle's view humans were no animals anymore (only in the flesh; the IDEA spirit-body split), but with 'spirit from space upgraded apes.
Aristotle designed Alexander the Great's terrible beliefs (horror hallucinations): a good-evil division of life',
with superior (= good) Greek' divine 'minds' (driven by immaterial spirit towards THE Truth) and evil sinful 'bodies' (without goal).
Aristotelian duality (good-evil) replaced
the Abrahamic religions (Zoroastrianism, Judean Christianity, Mekka Islam)
with Hebrewism.
After Aristotle the greedy Roman Senate added to the confusion,
and introduced the 'spiritual' Romans equiped with 'Ego' = copy of spirit of the God of The Emperor=Son of God.
Roman Christianity:
A pro slavery god.
In fact the son of a carpenter Jesus being called 'Son of God' made the Romans agree with the Israelian Pharisees to crucify the Palestinian prophet 'Jesus',
because his 'god' was way too much anti slavery.
Although Roman leaders superficially converted to
Christianity, they purpously created a variant that accepted slavery (ROMAN Christianity).
Ages later, since the Council of Chalcedon catholic priests officially taught that 'spirit=soul' was your personal copy of the immaterial and eternal 'holy spirit'.
Such independent 'spirits' precisely obeyed Catholic Laws (Nicomachean Ethics). And 'spirit' never had much problems with all kinds of slavery (Aristotle grew up with slaveraids as hunting parties,
and never doubted his 'superiority').
And again a few ages later the Muslims accepted a copy of Catholicism: Medina Islam or Mohammedanism
Aristotelian duality resulted (via Catholicism) in 2500 years of man-to-man conflicts, exploitation,
slavery, genocide, ...
In weird views like industrialism, capitalism, democracy, freedom of speech.
By introducing 'good' higher 'essence' (immaterial or 'spiritual') and lower sinful 'emotion' (bodily) .
Aristotle and Biology
Aristotle and the Supernatural
Biology was a natural pursuit for Aristotle, given his family's medical background.
His achievements in logic/ethics are very dubious, but 2000 years after his death his research in biology is seen as
lasting success (though equally dubious). He identified near to 500 different species of animals.
A big part of his achievement was simply the huge amount of data that he
collected, but he is also praised for the skill and care with which he organized the data.
Nowadays we would lock up Aristotle as 'psychotic control freak' (zarah2nd: I hate labels, but this one makes sense)
The biologer Aristotle invented 'immaterial spirit'
Aristotle saw human-animal keeping (slave-farming) as biological parasitism, and engineered
a model that made sense to him. THE essence of life.
Aristotle designed heavenly 'spirits from space' who steered sinful physical body/soul's.
For Aristotle psychology was 'higher' than biology, and he saw 'spiritual' motives steering
physical life (houses of flesh).
Quote Aristotle: The law is reason unaffected by desire or "The law is reason free from passion".
Aristotle's physics relies on an essential distinction between the
material realm, made of the four elements earth, water, wind, and fire,
and the 'spiritual' realm, made of immaterial ether and seen as superior.
| That invention of the immaterial 'spirit' as superior to bodily 'emotion' (intuition) allowed commenting brutal killing in slave-raids coldly as: 'necessary'.
The 'ideal' tool for emotionless slavehunters. |
Aristotle on 'Potency'
Considering 'belief' as material, the basis of Catholicism
Potency is an IDEA.
But Aristotle claims that (in his homemade Nicomachean Logic) 'potency' is a DIFFERENT kind of material.
Against common sense people who sense that 'potency' is only 'in your head' (not part of reality, it can't be sensed)
Aristotle claims in Metaphysics IX, 3-4 that 'potency' not being part of reality is not LOGICAL (his own logics?).
Because then one would only possess a potency when one was performing its corresponding act.
A man who is sitting, for example, would not have the potency to stand.
He would only have the potency of standing while actually standing. Aristotle believes this to be paradoxical.
Aristotle creates an awful confusion. First he claims that an IDEA can be owned.
Like owning the talent to stand. Or owning the status 'rich', or 'superior'.
Of course a man who sits has the ablity to stand, but as long as he sits one can only sense 'sitting'.
No use to claim that an alife soldier might be dead in a second.
A snake does not bite if you absolutely manage to stay rigid. Because his senses observe MOTION (odour is also motion).
Snakes can't sense 'ideas' (fantasies don't move)
Aristotle sees ideas as a different materiality, that can be sensed with a different kind of sense ('spirituality').
Like claiming: God is of godly material, and godly material can be observed with the sense 'belief'
And inherently very TRICKY Aristotle claims: My extra sense 'belief' senses that 'barbarians' are filled with the 'potency' 'inferiority'.
Aristotle and Eudaimonia
A thing in itself
Aristotle invented 'spirit from space' to make sense of the brutal lifestyle of the Macedonian dictators,
the environment in his young years, and considered this fantasy independent 'spirit'
as control unit of the body (the flesh). Peculiar is that that Aristotle saw 'spirits' as locked in a physical body.
So not simply soul is part of body as untill then in all earth beliefs (intuition is proven behavior), but 'spirit' as eternal immaterial matter
steering a material body. Humans differed in the quality of their 'spirit',
with far on top Greek, then other low quality humans, then spiritless mammals, etcetera.
Aristotle also invented 'eudaimonia'. Eudaimonia (living 'good' and doing 'good') is pursued for its own sake (final). Eudaimonia is supposed to be 'a thing in itself', that makes life 'good'.
Human happiness according to Aristotle is not 'function' (ergon) of a human. It is not 'behavior', human bodies are merely tools of immaterial superior 'spirits'.
And such 'spirits' have arete (excellence).
Humans use ergon (speech) to reach arete.
Aristotle means that chimpanzees and gorillas cannot speak (cannot reach arete, are inferior' beings). Eudaumonia is the fantasy of 'superiority' (humanism).
According to Aristotle humanoids share certain 'functions' with all life forms. But also Aristotle dreams about Hellenists being superior in 'reasoning' and 'choice' (nowadays called 'rational').
Aristotle suggests that "the SPECIAL function humans consists activity of the 'soul'.
Here Aristotle introduced the fantasy mind body split.
'Eudaimonia' is an 'activity' of the Aristotelian fantasy 'soul', built around the other Aristotelian
fantasies 'ergon' (function) and 'spoudaios / arete' (being special/superior) 'reasoning' ('understanding')
Aristotle had Zoroastrianism destroyed (common sense)
Aristotle saw 'spirit' as metaphysics, and as hidden power.
Aristotle saw metaphysics (his own abstract concepts about nature) as the knowledge of immaterial being, and calls it first philosophy, the theologic science or being in the highest degree of abstraction."
That way Aristotle became founding father of the Byzantine and Catholic Churches, believing in 'humanism' and supernatural things.
Aristotle saw 'spirit' as explanation behind natural happenings.
This belief today widely is referred to as 'animism'. That is why people who believe in IMMATERIAL 'spirits' nowadays are called 'animists'.
Aristotle saw 'spirit' as the power behind the ability of natural life to adapt ('selection', 'survival' or 'puzzling').
That lead to modern day 'scientific beliefs' (religion) like: sex can be learned by reading books. Common sense shows: sexual behavior is learned by copying and training. 'Sex' as IDEA =Illusion.
Once upon a time, 2000 years after Aristotle's pupil Alexander the 'Great', an in top totally corrupted Western World
exists following the rules of nature as given by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics.
Once upon a time ... 2000 years after Adolf Hitler.
'the world' obeyed the rules of nature as
given by Dr. Mengele and 'Head of NASA' Dr. von Braun in 'Arian Ethics' .
Dr. Mengele identified hundreds of different types of humans.
A big part of his 'research' was simply filling a huge database with collected data,
but he is often praised for the skill and care with which he organized the data in subtile medical experiments.
And Dr. von Braun is seen as a rocket technology wizard who innocently practiced with missiles by bombarding the city of London.
But who as Head of NASA with a HUGE step for humanity made humans ready for entering space.
Once upon a time the view on life of Hitler and Nazis was hated and called 'fascism'. But in the meantime in the year 4444 by erasing all emotion being extremely cruel is recognized' as necessary and as being very 'spiritual'......
O.K. 'fascism made about 100 million human victims worldwide, most of them civilians and by using extreme cruelty, but that was all in the game.
Not that much more corrupted as things already were.
The incommensurable Zen-Buddhist Chinese paradigm seems much more fun, but in the 44th century is out of reach.
In the time of Aristotle Persia was the gateway for getting Asian knowledge into the Western World.
For instance this way mathematics came to Greece and Egypt. The Asian notion "Chi" caused great conceptual confusion.
Aristotle mistakenly saw 'chi' as immaterial and 'godly'
Aristotle (384BC - 322BC) introduced the principal of immaterial 'spirit' (much later called metaphysics).
The essence of this idea was ages old (but seing it as IMMATERIAL, opened very tricky possibilities).
Taoists called it 'chi', the Babylonians 'ti', the Japanese 'rei ki'.
In fact 'chi' was meant as 'low density human', and as border between the Western notions 'biological body life' and 'biological body death'.
Human have a 'high density appearance' (biological body) and a 'low density essence' (chi-energy appearance or aura).
In the Western World the knowledge faded that brains function 'drive by wire' AND wireless (on remote control via the aura).
The control via aura is weaker and easier disturbed, and most humans don't use it.
All knowledge and intelligence is archived by wire in the brain an wireless in the 'aura', but the biological body adds 'strength.
Both 'biological body' and 'aura' can disintegrate, but in common at what Western people came to call 'death' only the biological body stops functioning.
Aristotle and Dominator View
Aristotle and Dualism
Aristotle was a 'dualist'
The view to split reality in IDEAS+physics (mind + matter) Aristotle inherited from Plato.
Nevertheless Plato treats this split in common sense way (dualism useful/damaging), just like earlier Zoroaster (Zarathustra).
Plato sees himself as a world citizen among 'equals'.
Aristotle used this dualism in supremacy way, the spiritual Masters and the barbarian Slaves.
Aristotle's idea of a God OUTSIDE of the world, supplying the efficient cause for the universe, was perfectly suited for church leaders who needed dominancy of The Catholic Church as way
to pretend that their own catholic laws ruled nature (and that 'Popes' are natural leaders) AND
to trick their slaves into 'order'.
zarah2nd: in a 21st-century article I found the to the point descriptions: 'dominator view' and 'partnership view'.
Quotes about Aristotle
Locke wrote about Aristotelianism: perplexed with obscure terms and useless questions
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) wrote about Aristotle: "a naive and childlike animistic view of the world"
Jeremy Bentham: Aristotle divides mankind into two distinct species that of freeman and that of slaves
Aristotle's convictions
Aristotle considered slavery as 'natural', because 'some men are adapted by nature to be the physical instruments of others.'
Aristotle considered the 'barbarian' as inferior, 'adapted by nature' to be slave of superior people.
Aristotle considered 'the universe' as made by 'God', though not being religious.
Aristotle considered study of theology, as a 'theoretical' (heavenly) pursuit [studying laws 'from heaven'] , as study of the highest kind,
and Aristotle in his 'theology' imagined an immaterial (virtual) God outside earth. God's IDEAs are desribed as 'virtue' (virtual), man's facts are seen as sin
Aristotle about Freedom (tricky): "each of us is free to become "a good person or a bad one" (Aristotle's God decides good or 'barbarian': absolutism).
Aristotle's logic of duality in the west practically separated body and 'spirit' (matter and 'mind'),
resulting in man-to-man conflicts (about 'spiritual arguments'),
exploitation (in the name of 'rights'),
slavery (of man without spirit by men with 'spirit'),
genocide.
Through Aquinas (1225-74), Aristotelian ethics became the official powertool of the Roman Catholic Church.
According to Aquinas 'intelligence' is an immaterial power and,
since a thing is as it acts, the soul itself is immaterial and can live without the body
Aristotle became the darling of the medieval Catholic Church, and after Enlightenment his fascist ideas were hidden by
the 'modern' Catholic Church in 'rationalism'.
Aristotle and White Fascism
Aristotle introduced the paranoid good-evil thinking
Aristotle believed that superior people should rule inferior people, and superior people,
in Aristotle's view, were Greek.
Aristotle wrote that Greek should not be slaves but that they should be slave owners
Aristotle saw 'anima' (soul, spirit, mind, ...) as sense of purpose. 'Anima'
Aristotle believed, moved itself aiming for a goal.
All human intelligence is in the with the eye invisible 'aura'.
| Stanislav Grof quote: A radical [..] transformation [..] might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. |
Good-evil thinking is mechanically dividing reality in two parts.
Western Science for long times didn't consider energyfields to contain mass. Nevertheless it manipulated in a 'spiritual' way with things like 'ether'.
In ancient times oracles or truth-sayers could communicate with 'aura's' (like in the 21st century the heavily distrusted 'psychics').
That was common sense and totally accepted.
The tragedy of the biologer Aristotle was that he interpreted material aura's as immaterial 'gods',
who presented a dual reality of 'spirituality' (good) and 'sinful flesh' (evil).
Because Aristotle failed the imagination to 'see' invisible things (like energy fields) as material. For Aristotle gravity must
have been caused by immaterial 'spirits' who pulled everyone down. Aristotle must have argued: 'people who believe in not existing things
(like physical life after 'death') can only be close to animals'. And in Aristotle's fantasy 'spirits' were real (though invisible), because they were 'immaterial'.
The aged Aristotle saw the weird hallucinations in his brain as immaterial mind.
The young total-zombie Alexander obeyed Aristotle's 'mind' (immaterial = good) and annihilated Persia (quite physical common sense = sinful flesh = evil).
Aristotle practically totally blocked an invalueable source of knowledge for the Western Paradigm, and indirectly he initiated the Catholic belief in 'spirits' (immaterial gods).
The Essence
Aristotle introduced the paranoid good-evil thinking
| Thomas Aquinas revived the dubious biological hierarchy ideas of Aristotle. Since the thirteenth century Aquinas is most known for his "Five Ways of Proving the Existence of God" .
Aquinas ignorantly revived a fascist ethics, that was largely forgotten apart from unrecognized basic principles in Catholic Ethics (the existence of immaterial 'spirits').
Thomas Aquinas developed his own popular ethics for the masses (Thomistic Philosophy) , which has its roots in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (the 'synderesis' or 'Natural Law' tradition in Catholic ethics).
Examples of 'synderesis' (simular to ages later Kant's 'Categorical Imperative'): "Do good and avoid evil" and "Obey God." Catholicism defined 'good' and 'evil', and if necessary this religion organized genocide ('inquisition'). |
| The fascism in Macedonian culture related Serb countries is no coincidence.
Serb culture seems to be drenched with paranoid Aristotelian 'we versus they' thinking.
Now and then fascism comes in the open. Then happenings like a 'Holocaust' (Persia, Armenia, Germany, Cambodja, Kosovo, Bosnia...) show the true nature of the paranoid
split of reality in 'good' and 'evil'. |
The essence is that Aristotle CREATED 'fundamentalism' (creationism = IMAGINING conflict good-evil)
Aristotle without realizing made a blueprint for Catholicism, and Catholicism designed a Western World that in the top-level 'politics' sees reality as conflict between good and evil.
With extremes like 'genocide', World Wars and Global War on Terrorism.
A Western World as agressive 'idea-stronghold' in a peaceful 'materialistic' common sense total world.
The used confict model in 'politics' is seen in 2 party systems (United States) and many party systems (social democracy). The common sense family models do
not divide families in fighting fractions. Also 'communism' uses the ineffective western made conflict model:
Marx is interpreted as 'WE the people' and 'THEY the aristocrats'.
A fight between 'a fantasy reality' of ignorant 'Hellinistic'/'Roman' design and common sense realities (design by firm 'Evolution Incorporated, with billions of years experience)
Ages later the religion 'Catholicism' made the confusion compete by distinguishing 'good spirits' (those housing in Catholics), and 'evil spirits'
housing in 'pagans'. 'Evil spirits' were fought bloodily with exorcism, inquisitions, crusades, world wars.
This destructive behavior was after European Enlightenment finally completely anchored in the ritual 'rationality', resulting in
annihilating wars on terrorism. As far as Afghanistan, Iraq or Iran.
Seen in 21st century common sense 'rationality' resulted in an ever increasing number
of Western macho-men dominating nature (multi-billionaires, popes, presidents, premiers, admirals, ...).
Such 'Superiors' from 'heaven' considered earth as 'exploitation source' OUTSIDE 'heaven'.
When the source is dry and dead, they 'think' that 'heaven'(=virtual reality) will still be quite alife
(a dream with near to disastrous consequences; in virtual reality there are no life sources). Reality takes sideways more weird than Science Fiction
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Epicurus
No good and evil, senses are 'passive receivers'
Epicurus is an original philosopher in the Hellenistic period,
the three centuries following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE
(and of Aristotle in 322 BCE).
Epicurus taught that the basic elements of life world are atoms, uncuttable bits of matter,
flying through empty space, and he tried to explain all of nature in atomic terms.
Epicurus rejected the existence of 'spirit' and 'immaterial soul',
and he said that the influence of gods is fantasy.
Epicurus taught about 'happiness' and how to achieve it in life.
Epicurus believed that happiness would come if people did not fear death, took care of themselves, and did not seek unnecessary desires.
Epicurus felt that people were must create their own happiness.
Epicurus writes, We must then meditate on the things that make our happiness,
seeing that when that is with us we have all, but when it is absent we do all to win it
Epicurus taught that we could gain knowledge of the world by relying upon the senses.
He taught that the point of all one's actions was to attain happiness as a group.
And that this could be done by limiting one's 'individual' desires,
and by banning the fear of the gods and of death.
Epicurus' teachings of freedom from fear proved to be quite popular,
and communities of Epicureans flourished for centuries after his death.
Epicurus says that there are three criteria of truth: sensations, 'preconceptions' (ideas about sensations) and feelings (intuition).
Sensations give us information about the external world. We can test the judgments based upon sensations against further sensations;
Epicurus says that all sensations give us information about the world,
but that sensation itself is a purely passive reception by sense-organs
(not true or false)
Instead, error enters when we judge all of life based upon local information received through the senses.
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Aristotle saw human-animal keeping (slave-farming) as biological parasitism, and engineered a model of life around what for him was THE essence.
Aristotle designed not-sensible 'spirits from space' who controlled sinful physical body/soul's. And preferred bodies of Greek.
Superiority thinking in Aristotelian circles / Greeks and Barbarians:
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