In the present post I want to move on to offer a part of the discussion of the principles of non-contradiction and excluded middle which I promised in “ The Principle of Metaphysical Realism” would be forthcoming in the next post I’ll offer its continuation, relating the principles as formulated here to their formulations in a mode reflective of a more contemporary conception of logic. I could have, and probably should have, gone on to take the obvious step of affirming the thesis of pluralistic dynamism, thatġ. Or, yet again, though I there neglected to offer this versionįinally, in the same postlette, I went on to offer a statement of the thesis I identify as that of philosophical dynamism, thatĪs another thesis which the philosophical perspective of this blog shares with the Aristotelianism, or Aristotelianisms, of Aristotle and Aquinas. In the postlette immediately following that post, I went on to point out that the philosophical perspective motivating After Aristotle accepts not only the principle of metaphysical realism but also the thesis of metaphysical pluralism, thatĪt least one being is an existent and it is not the case that at most one being is an existent.
In the post that I identify as the third in this series, “ The Principle of Metaphysical Realism,” I presented the principle in question, thatĪs “the utterly basic, and thus absolutely first, principle of metaphysics,” prior even to the principles of non-contradiction and excluded middle most often, if not always, identified by the Aristotelian tradition in philosophy as the “first principles.” I further presented it as one basis for identifying the philosophical perspective motivating After Aristotle as Aristotelian or, at least, neo-Aristotelian in nature.
An Appendix to ‘The Principle of Metaphysical Realism’,” as but an appendix to the full post immediately preceding it, and not itself a full post.). This post is the fourth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle (as its subtitle indicates, I think of my immediately preceding “postlette,” “ Metaphysical Pluralism.
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