Sunday, October 14, 2012

Peripatetic and Sedentary

Because of his conducting classes while walking about, Aristotle has been dubbed the 'Peripatetic'.  In contrast, a doctrine that is substantively 'Peripatetic' might begin with walking about as a paradigmatic experiential scenario.  Now, perambulation entails two main primary components--Motility and Proprioception, i. e. motor processes, and the regulation of them.  Arguably, Aristotle's Good--activity governed by the 'Golden Mean'--is conceivable as 'Peripatetic' in that sense, i. e. as a special case of the exercise of motor processes under the guidance of a homeostatic principle.  However, in Aristotle's doctrine, that Good is outranked by Contemplation, which abstracts from Motility.  So, Aristotelianism  is more 'Sedentary' than 'Peripatetic'.  Likewise, the peak experience in Heidegger's system, the revelation of Being, is independent of the perambulatory scenario of some of his works.

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