From: "Karl Carlile" <joseph-AT-indigo.ie>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 19:36:02 +0000
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: M-SCI: DIALECTICS OF NATURE & SCIENTIFC THEOR


A KARL CARLILE MESSAGE


KARL: Hi Chris!

CHRIS: When Aristotle viewed things across time, he understood,
through his concepts of actuality and potentiality, that A IS A --
and all that can become given its nature. 

KARL: These concepts of actuality and potentiality form part of a 
teleological structure that assumes that all that becomes already 
exists (from the cell to socialism). I am afraid I cannot accept that 
being even social being has a teleological structure. To accept such 
an a priori structure is to preclude contingency and novelty. It is to 
assume that the future is already pre-determined and that 
essentially there is no future. It is a philosophy of the origin; a 
philosophy or theology that suggests that all that is to be already 
exists in a, shall I say, pristine originary

Hegel further developed this ontological logic. While quite a
comforting metaphysics especially when going to bed alone on a very
stormy wintry night when during a power failure. In many ways you
logic Chris  amounts to no more than a bedside story.



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