On 4/18/2018 8:51 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On 18 April 2018 at 23:57, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
theology. It just means “theory of everything’” for the greeks,
No it doesn't. First, "theory" has a different origin from "theos"=god.
Second, for the Greeks "theology" meant discourse concerning the gods. From
Wikipedia:
Greek theologia (θεολογία) was used with the meaning "discourse on god" in
the fourth century BC by Plato in The Republic, Book ii, Ch. 18.[14]
Aristotle divided theoretical philosophy into mathematike, physike and
theologike, with the last corresponding roughly to metaphysics, which, for
Aristotle, included discourse on the nature of the divine
"with the last corresponding roughly to metaphysics"...
Right. For Aristotle metaphysics was all about the gods, i.e.
theology. But Bruno wants it to mean something it hasn't meant in
2500yrs. If he's just doing metaphysics he should call it metaphysics.
But he likes to take subtle pokes at atheists. Notice how he criticizes
"faith" in materialism, but belief that every integer has a successor is
just common sense...even though it entials and infinity of beliefs.
Brent
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