>Universals relate to substance, e.g. Socrates is a man. A bird is an irrational animal. Forms relate generally to quality, e.g. Beauty, Virtue, Goodness, etc.
How do qualities relate to substances then, in Aristotle's eyes?
Aristotle, Subtance, and Quality
Airistotle
They inhere in substances.
So is it part of predication, what is said of something, or is it something else? Is it what makes a substance a substance? Are qualities made up of universals in some way?
Substance is a thing you talk about. It's the subject of a quality. So an attribute/quality is a thing you can describe about a substance.
Are substances sculpted from matter and a bundle of Forms? Are Forms just bundles of universals?
I think this is the most pertinent thread up right now, so tell me: I've got completely and utterly filtered by the metaphysics, I started off pretty strong but I gave up altogether the moment I wasn't reading it daily. My experience in philosophy consists in a dozen of Plato's dialogues (including the republic of course) and nicomachean ethics. Should I read more Aristotle since from what I've gathered he's go to for metaphysics or should I read other philosophers?
You should read a textbook on metaphysics.
such as? Aristotle's metaphysics or metaphysics in general?
Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
that's not what I asked
okay Scottoid
I think you should read the Tao or the Kybalion alongside the book of revalation. Nietzche and Bavad-Ghita can help you translate some of Plato and Aristotles meaning because in the modern world the words Plato and Aristotle use have completely different meanings.
The primary one I come across is the confusion of Virtue with Virtu.
Virtue was coined by Aquinas, St Augustine to go alongside christianity
But Virtu does not concern itself with good and evil. It simply does what is strongest for the community.
This realisation led to the arrival of facism however the facists are overly bothered with appearing to have Virtu instead of actually posessing it. To be the absolute strongest you must completely destroy your ego in order to find the most effecienct way of eliminating your enemy.
The question is should you eliminate your enemy. That would make for a pretty boring game of life.
Perhaps also there is a fine balance to be struck with pity one should forgive the weak for their weakness to an extent but only so far as the community is not harmed.
This notion makes me feel sick however so I refuse to entertain it.
The day of the rope is coming Juden
There was a time I would have made a reply to this thread, but no more. I am truly free
Would it have been a good one or a shitpost?
What a fricking nerd
No one is going to sufficiently answer this. What the frick does any of it even mean?
Nobody knows what it means. But it's provocative.
It gets the people GOING.
doesn/t get IQfy going though