Watching a video-tape lecture series on intellectual history, I
heard the professor discuss the viewpoint of Aristotelean Scholasticism.
I feel that one can make the statement that in contrast to today's
system of intellectualism--subject/object metaphysics--the AS
viewpoint did at least have the feature that it had a system which
allowed one some kind of notion of quality, or morality.
In the AS of the medeival and early-rennaisance world, one essentially
regarded things that were close to God and the heavens to be worth
striving for; while one considered things far from the heavens (i.e. human and earthly things)
in the oppsoite way, i.e., as things to be shunned and avoided.
Such a system would at least provide an intellectual justification
for the assertion that un-restrained pursuit of biological quality is an
immoral thing. Today's system seems *not* to consistently assert such
a thing, as the narrator in "Lila" is telling us.
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