Pre-requisites for the best reading of Aquinas.
Pre-requisites.
You’ll be able to read the words of Thomas I’m sure. Please do. The ideas he puts forth are difficult and abstract. They cannot be written at an 8th grade level or so a person with no metaphysics training can understand them. In order to follow and comprehend him, you’ll need education and training that you may not already have. You can get this at OnlineGreatBooks.com. We’d love to have you there, but if you can’t or don’t want to join us there you’ll need to study the following:
Plato: Theatetus, Parmenides, Republic, Gorgias, Protagoras, Timaeus
Aristotle: Physics, Categories, Metaphysics, Prior Analytics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics
These are the minimum. A quick read through won’t do, you’ll need to unlearn 12+ years of ridiculous enlightenment garbage and familiarize yourself with their methods, vocabulary and concepts. Don’t let this spook you. Just get to work.
I’ll try to help make the metaphysics and the like more accessible in the summaries I’m going to post. Dig in.
Pre-requisites.
You’ll be able to read the words of Thomas I’m sure. Please do. The ideas he puts forth are difficult and abstract. They cannot be written at an 8th grade level or so a person with no metaphysics training can understand them. In order to follow and comprehend him, you’ll need education and training that you may not already have. You can get this at OnlineGreatBooks.com. We’d love to have you there, but if you can’t or don’t want to join us there you’ll need to study the following:
Plato: Theatetus, Parmenides, Republic, Gorgias, Protagoras, Timaeus
Aristotle: Physics, Categories, Metaphysics, Prior Analytics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics
These are the minimum. A quick read through won’t do, you’ll need to unlearn 12+ years of ridiculous enlightenment garbage and familiarize yourself with their methods, vocabulary and concepts. Don’t let this spook you. Just get to work.
I’ll try to help make the metaphysics and the like more accessible in the summaries I’m going to post. Dig in.
https://www.scotthambrick.com/article/why-there-can-be-no-true-meritocracy-in-business/
My new pond and meritocracy
My new pond and meritocracy
Required reading for this Sunday. It’s long. Read it anyway. If you don‘t wanna read it, you aren’t serious about the kind of stuff we talk about around here. https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=245076
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Oh, You Want to 'Win'? Forget It
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