Nicholas Perella
Puritan Board Freshman
Philip and Pastor Winzer,
Philip, simply the point you are making is that purpose is the cause, or maybe not the cause, but comes first before a 'thing in itself'. And that the 'thing' can be defined according to its 'purpose', but the 'thing' is still defined just only in accord to the 'things' purpose. Why is this significant? For instance a sandstone rock sitting in a field is a sandstone rock, and when somebody picks it up to cement and pile on a chimney, yes it is part of a chimney, a sandstone rock chimney. Would you agree that this indeed is agreeable to two or more people? And if so then what is so significant about starting with 'purpose' that if a person does not that person would be losing, or not realizing, or not profiting significantly?
Pastor Winzer, why is it significant that starting from 'purpose' to define the 'thing in itself' harmful?
Obviously this topic is worthy of a heartfelt, intelligent argument for two people find it to be thus but why? What stakes are involved? What is the profit or ill-profit?
Philip, simply the point you are making is that purpose is the cause, or maybe not the cause, but comes first before a 'thing in itself'. And that the 'thing' can be defined according to its 'purpose', but the 'thing' is still defined just only in accord to the 'things' purpose. Why is this significant? For instance a sandstone rock sitting in a field is a sandstone rock, and when somebody picks it up to cement and pile on a chimney, yes it is part of a chimney, a sandstone rock chimney. Would you agree that this indeed is agreeable to two or more people? And if so then what is so significant about starting with 'purpose' that if a person does not that person would be losing, or not realizing, or not profiting significantly?
Pastor Winzer, why is it significant that starting from 'purpose' to define the 'thing in itself' harmful?
Obviously this topic is worthy of a heartfelt, intelligent argument for two people find it to be thus but why? What stakes are involved? What is the profit or ill-profit?
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