Ep. 121: Save the Republic, Turn Off Your Dang Phone
Young Heretics
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Aristotle's Frying Pan
Aristotle says that matter is an all purpose substance. And because we live in a world where the forms are kind of shot through with matter, everything is also something potentially understood as something else. The difference is consciousness, right? We properly understand the nature of a thing when we have understood its essential nature. In mida, an ultimate purpose. It's shaped. Has been used for a purpose, a legitimate purposejust bonking the robber over the head. But my experience, my conscious awareness of the moral calibre of the situation, turns it into a blunt object. And qua blunt object, it has the telos of being of of being used to bonk over the
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