The CTMU’s Aristotelian and Platonic Roots
But what Langan does is to make a Redoubled Effort at Synthesizing Aristotle and Plato within some of the most Earth-Shattering Paradigms of 20th-21st Century Natural Sciences...
I will be breaking this down further as my thought or ‘meditation’ on this develops. But for now let us establish the Unmistakeable Influence of Aristotle and Plato on the CTMU. It’s not that the CTMU can be wholly derived from these ancient Philosophers (it cannot be and must be held of account of 20th Century Natural Sciences); but there is a palpable effect that these thinkers have on Mr. Langan. And now as I read Thomas Aquinas (whose thought is described as Thomistic-Aristotelian for its being derived from Aristotle) I can hear and feel the very logic of Aristotle when Langan speaks. The certainty carried in his spoken sentences following an inexorable logic which is the ‘this-follows-that’ logic: this is Aristotle…
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