Apollonius on Being and Becoming
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In a message dated 8/3/2008 6:24:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
Interesting take on Being and Becoming by Apollonius of Tyrana.
_http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/apollonius01.htm_
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspac…)
Jud
Jud:
Appolonius’ interpretation is a quaint and populist reiteration of
Aristotle’s concept of entelechy just as Heidegger’s overbearing and convoluted notion
of dasien is the same for the elitist pretensions of modern hyper-intellectuals
(”philosophers?”). In all cases, however, the notion of being and becoming
may be traced back to Anaximander’s apocrisis of apieron and the latter of which
is coined as prima materia, ousia, “prime being” or that which is full only
in potentia and needs be “winnowed out” (apocrisis) as beings in appearance
(morphe). The simplistic notion of being into becoming becomes so much scrambled
eggs in Heidegger’s SundZ and suited only for the hardboiled eggs of the
modern pro-denken mind. Like Aristotle I prefer my eggs sunny side up but after
which Thomas of Acquinas got to it as so much egg-drop soup in the Aurora
Consurgens that served as the comic book illustrations serving his approach to
alchemy. Thus, what started out as a subtle body in Aristotle’s prima materia wound
up the hard as the rock hard Lapis of alchemy. Accordingly, Heidegger’s SuZ
would have benefited the modern mood (mode) of ghefhul if he had illustrated it
with either his own doodles or the help of Salvidor Dali.
sincerely,
Bernard
