Raphael

A man of candour

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@NBAisBest4 C tier rage bait

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@energeiologian ok

[will @will_nba_hater]

Find the one with no rings

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@RxOnlyFL Not really hard to understand, he’s saying an emergentist view of consciousness is only logically possible if you assume potency is teleologically ordered towards act but not as an arbitrary spontaneity participating in no ontologically prior principle.

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@StarkConor And I would say that evil is not definable in the way potency is because again evil is relative to nothing whatsoever, is not potency for goodness, is not conditioned by unity at all and so is not a one that is spoken of, since it has no positivity at all.

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@StarkConor To limit knowability to the knowledge of something in itself rather than in all senses makes any retrieval of Aristotle’s principle of mind for discourse about God impossible because the principle is finite. It isn’t consciousness of any and all content whatsoever, unqualified.

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@StarkConor even said for evil, as evil is not relative to anything whatsoever as total absence. We are not defining anything but proceeding by removal. This is not the case for potency precisely because it is potency for goodness and thus has some positivity.

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@StarkConor "you can’t define act and potency. You see them analogously in relation to one another." That is still an act of apprehension and requires a subjective depth and intentionality that grasps each in relation to the other. Even relative to form it is knowable qua x, which can't be

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@StarkConor and it is absurd to speak of some determinate thing that is “unknowable”, then how does knowability not extend to absolutely anything identifiable at all?

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@StarkConor But prime matter, as potency for goodness, is not evil, which has nothing of goodness at all (and thus is not identifiable whatsoever). So even if pure potency *is* only relative to form, it still has unity in a way evil does not at all. And as whatever has unity is determinate,

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@StarkConor But matter isn’t evil, it participates in and is determined by the good and therefore must have some unity.

[Ruby Dunn @ruby_dunn01]

Santa Maria Novella is a thousand times more interesting than Santa Maria del Fiore: deliciously layered, light and utterly peaceful. Terrific frescos, a very darling Annunciation, and a completely impressive high altar.

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@miaphysite3 Similar to Bulgakov

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@our_decay Investing at 300

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@Adulisian The Aristotelian of Oz

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Will the Pope owe an apology to AI? Slaves were self-evidently human, yet the church got it wrong. All the more reason for humility now, writes Cameron Berg
https://t.co/jDk5Kktv6M

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@_bonaventurian Reminiscent of Dionysius (Divine Names 4.12-14)

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

Pseudo-Dionysius:

[interpretation @materialcritic]

desire is the root of all yayyy desire is so fun i love to desire

[Raphael @aloofroufa]

@tomfordblues Nice selection of books!