Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 13:55:25 -0600
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: The Western Canon University reprised...




>
>	One way to look at Western history might be as a series of tensions
>between Platonism and Aristotelianism, although of course the two often
>co-exist. Remeber Raphael's great painting of the School of Athens in the
>Stanza della Segnatura? There Aristotle, holding the Nicomachean ethics,
>points towards the ground; but beside him Plato, holding the Timaeus,
>points towards the heavens..
>
>	Ciaofernow, Mike.

Indeed it might, especially when one considers the tensions established by
the CE and the pervasiveness of its penetration into the bases of how the
west conceptualizes the world.  If it has been said that most of what the
west thinks about love proceeds from Shakespeare's poetry, then it can
certainly be said that most of what the same population thinks about truth
comes from religiously assimilated platonism.

g




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