Sublime

Lombard’s eagerness to distance himself from the language of the humanity as a homo assumptus, a complete individual entering into union with the Word, leads him to a theory that risks evacuating the humanity of its coherence as a genuine item in the created world.

render in neutral language the main

Quand Aristote élève le bíos theoretikós, la vie contemplative, au rang d’activité divine et y situe la félicité parachevée, il a sans aucun doute en vue l’observation cultuelle de Dieu dans la theoría : “Et il y a pour finir Aristote qui ne compare nullement la theoría du philosophe à une observation quelconque, mais avec celle de l’Olympe, auprès

Although the Stoics were not the first to do logic—Aristotle, for example, had done it before them, as had the Megarians—Stoic logic showed an unprecedented degree of sophistication. The Stoics’ interest in logic is a natural consequence of their belief that man’s distinguishing feature is his rationality. Logic is, after all, the study of the

What is ‘the function of human beings’? Aristotle approaches an answer to this question by analogies. What makes a good flute-player? Skill at playing the flute. A good carpenter? One good at making things from wood. Each is ‘good’ because he performs his particular function, his work (ergon), well. To do his work well is the virtue or excellence

philosophers can deal with more down-to-earth matters.

Le commun des mortels, dont font partie les philosophes (qui, à leurs propres yeux, précisément, ne sont pas des sages), doit s'orienter péniblement dans l'incertitude de la vie quotidienne, en opérant des choix qui semblent raisonnablement, c'est-à-dire vraisemblablement, justifiés340.

I frame this argument in terms of the “ontological status” of intelligibility (being, truth, etc.) and argue that if any metaphysics (scientific or otherwise) fails to account for such intelligibility, then it fails necessarily, as it cannot explain or account for its purported ability to explain or account