Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James
Aug 19, 2026 · 15 min · 7 segments
The military form of Globalisation began by Alexander had its causes and consequences related to the Golden Mean Principle which had not as yet manifested itself in the form of the nation-state. It…
Michael R. D. JamesHostThe history of Aristotelian metaphysics since its inception has involved the attempt of the modern mind to rid itself of the Aristotelian value-laden view of the world.
Part of this endeavour relates to the attempt to, theoretically, characterise the activities of man, financial and otherwise, in terms of the mechanics of science and the calculations of mathematics.
The mark of the modern mind, it was argued is to err on the side of scepticism when it comes to evaluating metaphysical reflections on the world in general and human action in particular.
These modernists both attempted to bracket our understanding of the hylomorphic theory of Aristotle.
There were defenders of Aristotle then, as there are today, but they were overwhelmed by the energy and vigour of the youthful scientists, all of whom were eager to replace the conceptual understanding we have of the world with a toolbox of pragmatic techniques and a pocketbook of theoretical mathematical calculations.
Were these phenomena the cause or the consequence of the abandonment of the ancient Greek view of the world? A view of the world which could plainly see how ethics, politics, history, poetry, religion, tragedy, science and mathematics all could be characterized satisfactorily in accordance with a metaphysical theory of change.
It must have seemed extremely unlikely during the time of Aristotle that the humanities disciplines would be colonized by mathematics and science.
Paradoxically, It might be the case that the primary target for modernist skeptical philosophy after the Middle Ages was not Aristotle but rather that bearer of authority par excellence, religion.
As we emerged from the Middle Ages religion was itself in the throes of responding to internal protest of its own which in England, in particular, was to result in the dissolution of the monasteries and a revolution of the social and political life of the country.
Prior to these events, Aristotle was the philosophical authority and that his philosophy should have been enveloped in a tsunami of antidogmatism is, course, a testament to both the fragility of philosophy and the human mind.
The history of Aristotelian metaphysics since its inception has involved the attempt of the modern mind to rid itself of the Aristotelian value-laden view of the world.
Part of this endeavour relates to the attempt to, theoretically, characterise the activities of man, financial and otherwise, in terms of the mechanics of science and the calculations of mathematics.
The mark of the modern mind, it was argued is to err on the side of scepticism when it comes to evaluating metaphysical reflections on the world in general and human action in particular.
These modernists both attempted to bracket our understanding of the hylomorphic theory of Aristotle.
There were defenders of Aristotle then, as there are today, but they were overwhelmed by the energy and vigour of the youthful scientists, all of whom were eager to replace the conceptual understanding we have of the world with a toolbox of pragmatic techniques and a pocketbook of theoretical mathematical calculations.
Were these phenomena the cause or the consequence of the abandonment of the ancient Greek view of the world? A view of the world which could plainly see how ethics, politics, history, poetry, religion, tragedy, science and mathematics all could be characterized satisfactorily in accordance with a metaphysical theory of change.
It must have seemed extremely unlikely during the time of Aristotle that the humanities disciplines would be colonized by mathematics and science.
Paradoxically, It might be the case that the primary target for modernist skeptical philosophy after the Middle Ages was not Aristotle but rather that bearer of authority par excellence, religion.
As we emerged from the Middle Ages religion was itself in the throes of responding to internal protest of its own which in England, in particular, was to result in the dissolution of the monasteries and a revolution of the social and political life of the country.
Prior to these events, Aristotle was the philosophical authority and that his philosophy should have been enveloped in a tsunami of antidogmatism is, course, a testament to both the fragility of philosophy and the human mind.
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