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Peter John Kreeft, Boston College ve The King's College'da felsefe profesörüdür. Roma Katolikliğine dönüşen Hristiyan felsefesi, teolojisi ve özür dilimi üzerine seksenten fazla kitabın yazarıdır. Ayrıca Ronald K. Tacelli ile birlikte "Tanrı'nın Varlığı İçin Yirmi Argüman" da formüle etti.
Tam adı:
Peter John Kreeft
Unvan:
Boston College ve The King's College'da felsefe profesörü
Doğum:
Paterson, New Jersey, ABD, 16 Mart 1937
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We have said that terms express concepts, that concepts are universal, and that concepts refer to the essences or natures of things. Are these essences uni- versal, like the concepts we have of them?
If they are not, then it seems that our concepts of them are not accurate, for they do not correspond to their objects. And in that case, our concepts would dis- tort rather than reveal the true nature of things.
But are universals then real things‘? Is beauty real as well as beautiful things? Does humanity or human nature or the human species really exist in addition to the 6+ billion human beings that have the same essential human nature?
Sayfa 42
bir noktayı cihan yap o noktaya hakim ol
Though your body is unimaginably tiny compared with the universe, your concept of the universe is greater than the universe! For if you understood the word “universe,” your thought ‘surrounded’ the universe —the same universe that surrounds your body. You did that by having a concept of the universe.
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reject all “generalizations
Perhaps “boob tube hypnosis” is the reason why so many people today will immediately and thoughtlessly reject all “generalizations” like “men are more aggressive than women” as “stereotypes.” They are confusing comprehension andextension.Theyaremisinterpretingastatementaboutcomprehensionasif it were one about extension, and that is why they think that the fact that Mrs. X is more aggressive than Mr. X disproves the statement that “men are more aggressive than women.” They cannot or will not rise to the original statement’s level of abstraction and argue with it on its own level.
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Avicenna and by St. Thomas Aquinas
A universal form such as humanness exists in the world only individu- ally, but the same form or nature exists in the mind universally, by “abstraction” from individuals.
Sayfa 43
Concepts, terms, and words
A concept exists only privately, in an individual mind; a term is in the public domain. A term expresses objectively what is known subjectively in a concept; a concept is a person’s subjective knowledge of the meaning of a term.
A word (or group of words forming a phrase that is less than a complete sentence) is the linguistic expression of a term. The difference between a term and a word is the difference between what is common to all languages and what is different in different languages; for the same term, the same unit of meaning, is expressed in different words by different languages. Languages are man- made, conventional, and changeable. Terms are not. That is why it is possible to
translate between different languages: because the same stable term, or unit of meaning, anchors many different words in many different languages. E.g. “love,” “caritas,” “agape,” “lieb,” “amor,” and “amour” are the same term in six different words.
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İletiler
"Bugün putlar tahtadan, taştan veya pirinçten yapılmamaktadır. Para, seks ve güçten oluşurlar."
Peter Kreeft
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