Word: aristotelian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Spiritual Iron Curtain." Roman Catholicism, says Father Witcutt, conflicts with philosophy ("It does not allow for any advance in philosophy made since the 13th century"), with physical science ("by insisting upon the now indefensible Aristotelian doctrine" that qualities, such as color, are objective instead of being in our senses) and with history. Back in the Anglican fold, he holds that the Bishop of Rome became pre-eminent in the church only because the Mohammedans "over whelmed the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, isolated him of Constantinople, and left only the Patri arch of Rome in his former authority...
...year-old Galileo tried to poke his telescope through the stuffed flue of the Ptolemaic-Aristotelian universe, and ran into trouble. In any other hands, the telescope might have been only a passing novelty. In Galileo's it pointed back to a neglected but explosive treatise called Revolution of the Celestial Orbs, written a half-century before by Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. On mathematical grounds, Copernicus had questioned the natural philosophy of Aristotle and the astronomy of Ptolemy which taught that the earth stood still in the center of the universe while the heavens revolved around it every 24 hours...
...forth no proposition which "necessitated" God to operate in any one fixed way. Galileo abided by the Pope's injunctions, but committed the tactical affront of putting Urban VIII's words and viewpoint in the mouth of the simplest-minded character in the Dialogue, a doctrinaire Aristotelian named Simplicio. The powerful Jesuit faction, which advised the Pope, had no trouble convincing him that he had been made a fool of and that Galileo's views were "potentially more disastrous than Luther or Calvin." In 1633 Galileo stood before the Inquisition...
Foundation of Foundations. The Guide to the Perplexed applied Aristotelian philosophy to Judaism, as Aquinas applied it to Christianity. Maimonides' interlocking of Aristotelian metaphysics with the ethical and personal religion of the Old Testament is one of the great philosophical achievements of the Middle Ages...
...Episcopalian John D. Wild, 52, of the Harvard philosophy department, authority on Aristotelian realism, acid critic of positivism and existentialism. His course at Divinity: medieval scholasticism...