From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Wed Dec 17 2003 - 16:39:57 GMT
every aspect of the human personality has to come first from some outside
circumstance. genes gives one the inherent, or "aristotleian" substance of
things, while societal experience gives one the adventitous or "learned" appearance
to apply to those things. how we use them is partly due to our genes, and
partly due to our up-bringing. so, in essence, while one may not be able to
control his/her primitive sexual urges, there may not be a "sexaul-preference" gene.
Hello there!
I hope you are encouraged to write more in the forum? I am a fan of Aristotle
myself, but now read him in the light of my new MoQ glasses, so to speak.
This has meant a shift away from describing 'things' as substances to trying
to think about 'processes' or SQ-SQ tensions. I am not sure if Aristotle would
be upset by this, after all, he used four causes while our science only uses
two, and even then we could describe processes in terms of a tension between
potential and actuality? There is room in Aristotle for descriptions of Human
artistic creativity?
I suppose we could say that genes are biological SQ-SQ tensions evolving
simultaneously with SQ-SQ social tensions (Potential-actual tensions)?
All the best,
Mark
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