Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Deity, Teleology, Extraterrestriality

Aristotelianism has been repudiated in several respects.  But, two of them taken in combination reveal his prescience.  First, his closed Geocentrism has been supplanted by not only Heliocentrism, but a concept of an indefinitely open Universe.  Second, his concept of a deity that moves the rest of the Cosmos Teleologically has had little Theological traction over the centuries.  However, with respect to the location of that deity, he has anticipated the perhaps fundamental course of Modern Human history.  For, that location is the circumference of his Cosmos, which, in Modern Astronomy, is an extraterrestrial realm.  So, to the extent that the realm is now being conceived as the destiny of the Human race, Aristotelian Teleology has been accurate.

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