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April 13, 2026 – 1:26 am
Larry Sanger
In: For Perseverance
Lovely prayer, I find.
April 12, 2026 – 7:19 pm
Larry Sanger
In: Laws X, 893b–899d: What is Plato’s positive argument from self-motion…
I’m looking forward to it too! We’ll try to make good progress.
April 12, 2026 – 6:01 am
Michael Pang
In: Laws X, 893b–899d: What is Plato’s positive argument from self-motion…
I bought a copy of The Nicomachean Ethics today in anticipation. It begins with "Every art and every investigation, and similarly every…
April 10, 2026 – 9:25 am
Ben Nitu
In: Physics III: Initial questions and notes
I think you’re correct. I might be reading too much into it 🙂
April 10, 2026 – 8:24 am
Michael Pang
In: Physics II.3: If Aristotle is not simply analyzing causality in the modern…
If Aristotle is not simply analyzing causality in the modern sense, what is he analyzing? Another way of phrasing this is, "If…
April 10, 2026 – 1:39 am
Larry Sanger
In: Physics III: Initial questions and notes
Also, Aristotle becomes much more interesting when you think of his argument as aiming to establish an unchangeable changer.
April 10, 2026 – 1:08 am
Larry Sanger
In: Physics II.1: What is Aristotle’s account of nature?
All correct. I get your point in the last: the form of a bed requires a certain kind of matter, because else…
April 10, 2026 – 1:00 am
Larry Sanger
In: Physics III: Initial questions and notes
I think Aristotle's point was simpler than you might wish. He's just saying that the same body, with its balance of bodily…
April 10, 2026 – 12:55 am
Larry Sanger
In: Physics III: Initial questions and notes
I'm glad that the Greek notes help somebody! Thanks for the feedback. The explanation often given is that Aristotle's works are not…
April 10, 2026 – 12:39 am
Ben Nitu
In: Physics III: Initial questions and notes
'To be capable of health' and 'to be capable of illness' are not the same, for if they were there would be…

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A Harmony of the Passion Story

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The following is a new “synthetic” Harmony of the Gospels—covering the passion story through the end of all four gospels. Following the harmony itself I will give notes on how I prepared this,
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What is Plato’s positive argument from self-motion?

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This is the longest answer I wrote, in the first month of writing for Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum, commenting on Plato’s Laws, Book X, 893b–899d. We’re about to start Aristotle’s two arguments for a Prime
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Wrapping Up Plato

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