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Watching a video-tape lecture series on
intellectual history, I
heard the professor discuss the viewpoint of
Aristotelean Scholasticism.
I feel that one can make the statement that in
contrast to today's
system of intellectualism--subject/object
metaphysics--the AS
viewpoint did at least have the feature that it had
a system which
allowed one some kind of notion of quality, or
morality.
In the AS of the medeival and early-rennaisance
world, one essentially
regarded things that were close to God and the
heavens to be worth
striving for; while one considered things
far from the heavens (i.e. human and earthly things)
in the oppsoite way, i.e., as things to
be shunned and avoided.
Such a system would at least provide an
intellectual justification
for the assertion that un-restrained pursuit of
biological quality is an
immoral thing. Today's system seems *not* to
consistently assert such
a thing, as the narrator in "Lila" is telling us.
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