{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Natural Law", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/115504942693/", "html": "<pre>Thomas Aquinas: Look, this works, right?\nme: Yep.\nThomas Aquinas: It's pretty well precedented that it works.\nme: No argument.\nThomas Aquinas: Because <em>by</em> working, it generates the resources and conditions necessary for it to work.\nme: Exactly.\nThomas Aquinas: Now here's the thing.\nme: There's a thing?\nThomas Aquinas: See, if you take all of the elements of its working, and then apply Aristotle\u2014\nme: Honestly you had me at \"this works\".\nThomas Aquinas: No no bear with me. First, you assume God. Then you think about what that would <em>mean</em> for Aristotle, and <em>then</em> you apply Aristotle to all the elements of its working, and can you guess what meaning pops out?\nme: Wait there's a meaning now?\nThomas Aquinas: Can you guess?\nme: \u2026\nThomas Aquinas: \"God.\" Boom, mind blown, right?\nme: \u2026</pre>"}