/lit/ - Literature

>>3704710
Final causality underlies all potentiality and thus all materiality. Potency and Act divide being in such a way that whatever is, is either pure act, or of necessity it is composed of potency and act as primary and intrinsic principles. The universe, as all things, has potency and act. Therefore, the universe (and, by extension, humanity) has a final cause.

>>3704621
I think we are looking a different definitions. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/absurdism

>>3704570
Teleology, being the study of a things end or purpose, is at a direct odds with Abusrdism which claims the human condition and the universe as a whole has no inherent meaning or purpose.

>>3704528
All Absurdism is, quite the contrary to what it claims, is a throwing of hands up in the air and rage quitting any attempt at thought. Everything has 4 causes, material, formal, its potentiality, and its teleology. All existentialism and absurdism are is a shit on Teleology so you don't have to think about the final ends of things.

The greatest mistake ever made by western thought was the abandonment of Aristotelian Philosophy.

Dear OP.

What you need to read is a very simple book called "Manalive" by GK Chesterton. It fits the bill you need. In fact, anything written by Chesterton I would highly recommend. I was in a similar position a couple of years back, and the fix for me was Thomistic Aristotelianism. A good modern philosophers who keeps an ongoing blog is Edward Feser.

Hey /lit/.

What are some good intros to Aristotle's Metaphysics? I have been trying to read Aquinas but I think I need a grounding in Aristotle so 90% of what he says doesn't go over my head.

Thank you guys. I will make sure to look into some of these guys. BTW what are some of your favorite GKC books? Mine used to be Orthodoxy before I read St. Francis. Fiction wise though, The Man Who Was Thursday blows me out of the water every time I read it.

Hey atheists/nihilists on /lit/. As a Catholic, I have been looking for some rebuttal and rebukes on the apologetical works of GK Chesterton (Heretics, Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man ect.) The only serious book that I have found on him was "Authordoxy" and that didn't even hold a candle to GK. Any pointers?

>>3654320
He's not obscure. He is one the worlds greatest living philosophers. He's fucking brilliant.

Opinions on Peter Kreeft?

*hear*

I cant here you over the sound of the Tao.

How many other /lit/ practicing Catholics are out there? This is not a debate, it's just that because of writers like GK Chesterton, Belloc, Dawson, Newman, Augustine, and Aquinas and as a whole Thomas's ideas on Scholasticism I seem to find more Catholics than any other kind of theists that can hold there ground intellectually on the webs.

What are your thoughts on Clive Cussler and his works?

For pete's sake. Read "Manalive" by GK Chesterton. Greatest cure for pessimism I have found. Free on Gutenburg.

Read "Manalive" by GK. Chesterton. You can find it for free on Gutenburg.

>>3401848
Actually, this theory makes the mistake of equivocation. A void with quantum physics that can create energy is not the same as nothing. Nothing is the lack of a thing. If it existed, it wouldn't. Thus this does not answer the tradition philosophical question "How did something come from nothing?" While the science here is brilliant (Read "The Grand Design" by Hawking) it has nothing to do with the retraction of an Uncaused Cause argument.

What does /lit/ think about "Manalive" by GK Chesterton?

To be blunt, G.K Chesterton.

Read "Manalive" By G.K. "Fucking" Chesterton

Thomistic Aristotelianism with some Chestertonian thrown in.

Discuss.

Was this man one of the most accomplished poets of light verse in english history, a radical catholic, a raving anti-Semite, or all that and more?

Would anyone here consider themselves a "radical" because of the books they read and the opinions they gained from them? Being well read in GK Chesterton, Belloc, and Christopher Dawson has made me seem quite "radical" especially in a high school english class where we mostly read existential literature. Ideas?