Jeremy Gilkison

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Aristotle also said that if something exists, then it must change, including the cosmos itself. Only the Prime Mover does not. Only He is unmoved, eternal, and perfect. The rest of reality is bound to the laws of nature: doomed, in other words, to various states of imperfection. That’s what makes it reality. And if evolutionary change is the rule for the rest of the cosmos, then why not for man himself?
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
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