i realy liked the way you explained the 4 causes. I realy wish you would have kept rolling. you left me looking for a part two Though i do think you stopped at a good place i was wondering where you were going with what you said about the tree not having an explanation of its purpose if its explanation was to make acorns to produce a tree which would make more acorns and so on. It seemed to me that you were going in the direction of infinate regresion and how aristolte explains the need for a first cause. Although you did make it clear that that would be a much tougher thing to figure out and correct me if i'm wrong would end up having to be answered differently by different belief systems?
Hi, Victor. Thank you for the nice comment. I find your analysis to be absolutely correct. The Oak tree must explain the acorn, but, to be honest, as I am not an Aristotle scholar, I don't have any immediate notion of how one might settle on a final cause or telos to explain the Oak. However, I do agree with your suggestion, that in actual practice, the question would be addressed from a particular worldview. Although, I do not think that this sort of relativistic thinking would satisfy Aristotle. Thank you again for watching. Posting these videos is my way of trying to make a contribution to contemporary studies in philosophy. It is a medium toward which I am much more inclined that writing books. It always seemed to me, in the spirit of Socrates, that philosophy is an event, filled with the mystery and excitement of allowing the inquiry to guide us, rather than the other way around. Showing students these videos hopefully gives them the idea of philosophy as a phenomenon, as I always have regarded it.
+Victor Andrade I think you are correct, Victor. In fact, on my view, the entirety of human experience (that is not to say, possibility) is a belief system... and we've been proselytized into a very narrow band of possibility.
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Is it really true that Plato's dialogues were lost in written form but memorized by arab (?) scholars who didn't speak Greek? I heavily doupt this proposition.
