Tag: Aristotle
Theist Doctor, Materialist Doctor
To be a good medical doctor, you have to treat the human body as if its parts have purpose and function. There’s really no way around it.
Jay Richards: Toppling a Myth of Human Insignificance
It was 19th-century materialism that needed the so-called Copernican demotion, for ideological reasons, and the historians of the time obediently invented it.
Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity
Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome.
An Evolutionary Theorist Plays with Words; Let’s See How Far It Gets Him
Francis Heylighen’s “ontology of relational agency” starts with an interesting observation.
Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”
Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate.