Ideas Shape the Course of Humanity How did we get here? Where do we go? - Fides et Ratio
As a context for the current essay, recall the four guideposts of a Catholic philosophy: creation metaphysics, hylomorphic anthropology, realistic epistemology, and objective ethics. https://karen-early.com/faith-reason/four-catholic-guideposts-of-philosophy-part-i/
https://karen-early.com/faith-reason/aristotle-setting-the-philosophical-scientific-standard-for-millennia/ I ended my previous essay with Aristotle but to be complete with the classical philosophers I should conclude with Plotinus (circa 240-270 BC), who introduced the idea of returning to the One explicitly. This return to the source of origin known as
Aristotle (384-322 BC) one of the greatest philosophers and scientists of all time, tethered the Forms of Plato into a realistic epistemology while at the same time refuting the Pre-Socratics that only that which is real is composed of atoms or the notion of only the one is real with all else being a name https://karen-early.com/faith-reason/pre-socratics/. Modern man knows …