thom space

Wow I just learned a hard lesson about bloging. Sometimes when you are half way through composing a post the window disappears, and the text vanishes along with it. Six. Well I think that as to what I was attempting to post I will reenter the gist of what I was saying before.

Aristotle and his notion of perfection in people. First I think that if Aristotle is right and we are striving to be perfect, then I have stumbled upon one of my main problems. I am certainly not in the best conditions for reaching the most perfect state possible at Cornell. I do not however think that Aristotle is right. I do think that we strive for perfection, but unlike Aristotle I do not think that we ever achieve it (Still I might not be in the best conditions at Cornell ). I think that the question here is what is meant by perfection. I can say that a rock on the ground in front of me is a perfect rock, because it is being a rock completely. Its being is to be a rock. I can not however say the same thing about a person. A person is never just being a person. I persons being is to be more than what they are at any given time, that is of course until they die and become a thing that is like a rock.

the idea of achieving perfection in people is somewhat contradictory. That is to say that a person who is alive can never just “be” because to “be” would entail a static state of existence, like that of a rock, when people are “dynamic” by the fact that they are alive. So yeah I think that is that. Right on.