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Ockham
Mar 9, 2011 19:27:52 GMT
Post by gregmita on Mar 9, 2011 19:27:52 GMT
Edward Feser has a blog post on the views of William of Ockham. edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/03/razor-boy.htmlI'll need to check on some of the quotes, but they look right. If the quotes are correct, it seems to me (far from knowledgeable about Ockham) William of Ockham had some very similar views, especially on causation, to al-Ghazali. Peter Damian/Ockham, I think you're the one who probably knows the most about your namesake here, any comments, criticisms, challenges to Thunderdome?
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Ockham
Mar 15, 2011 21:39:51 GMT
Post by peterdamian on Mar 15, 2011 21:39:51 GMT
Hi I'm sorry I missed your post (and Feser's post) when they first appeared. However, I don't know know very much about Ockham's views on causation (probably because I haven't read many of the Quodlibetal Questions. Shame on me.
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joel
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Ockham
Mar 15, 2011 22:13:20 GMT
Post by joel on Mar 15, 2011 22:13:20 GMT
I can barely understand half of what Feser says. Maybe I just haven't studied enough philosophy.
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Ockham
Mar 17, 2011 18:12:08 GMT
Post by gregmita on Mar 17, 2011 18:12:08 GMT
peterdamian: The thing that strikes me the most is the fire burning cotton claim - it's almost exactly the same argument that al-Ghazali uses to support occasionalism in his Diatribe Against The Philosophers (okay maybe it's usually translated differently ). joel: Aristotelian metaphysics is really hard to get your head around. There's a lot of philosophical pre-conditioning built into us as a part of the modern world. Those have to be questioned before Aristotelian (and Thomist) arguments can be understood on their own terms.
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