The Creation of Heaven and Earth

The Creation of Heaven and Earth

 

Edited By: George H. van Kooten

 

Here Aristotle makes an effort to undermine the geometrical analogy proposed by his former colleagues in the Academy. Three straight lines, for example, he would argue, when taken separately, are not in their nature antithetical to the existence of the triangle for the formation of which they are combined; but the pre-cosmic chaos described by Plato, which his Demiurge has to take in hand and bring to order, is the very antithesis of that order. This argument is ingenious, but not, I think, compelling. The point that the Platonists would make is that there never was a pre-cosmic chaos, so that all that Plato is describing is a feature of the world as it now is, which is an irreducible element of disorder and imperfection that is inseparable from the formation of a physical realm, and which the creative World Soul, or Cosmic Intellect or whatever we want to make of the demythologized Demiurge cannot entirely eliminate. [download]

 

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