![]() ![]() Is Aristotelian Natural Philosophy Necessary?īut this revival would seem to be ill-fated unless we can somehow overcome the challenge from modern science. Hylomorphism of a sort has gained wide acceptance in contemporary metaphysics. While Aristotle recognized a profound difference between human beings and other substances, based on our unique rationality, he avoided Platonic dualism, and he conceived of human aspirations as continuous with the striving of all natural things to their essential ends, providing an objective basis for norms in ethics, aesthetics, and politics.Īristotelianism has undergone a great revival in the intervening 40 years, with Aristotelian approaches to ethics, both in terms of virtue ethics (e.g., Alasdair MacIntyre and John McDowell) and in the natural goodness theories of Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson, and with stalwart defenses of Aristotle’s approach to science by David Charles, James Lennox, Michail Peramatzis, and others. The Greek philosopher Aristotle (382–322 BC) had a theory of nature that offered a number of advantages from the viewpoint of both humanism and biblical theology. In fact, the quantum revolution is a wholesome development from a theological perspective, reconciling our scientific view of the world with the possibility of human agency. The discovery of the quantum in the early twentieth century has transformed our understanding of the natural world in ways that few have fully grasped. ![]() Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in the history of science. ![]()
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