Not long ago I weighed in on an on-line question-- "Can God make anything Imperfect?" I made the suggestion that "GOD MAKES EVERYTHING IMPERFECT." In Metaphysics (Book Delta) Part 16, Aristotle gives a three possible definitions of teleios, a word we often translate into English as "perfect" --- unimprovable. complete (needing nothing additional) functional (achieving …
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The Quest for Aesthetic Perfection
The following is an excerpt (first draft) of an article I am writing. The article's title is "Better than New: Reflections on Wabi Sabi as a Metaphor for Christian Perfection." The Greek ideal of beauty is tied to Platonic philosophy. With this, the goal is to conform an object to an ideal form. A carpenter …