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Originally Posted by dnlgfnk
Weak metaphysical examples can lead to weak, larger metaphysical concepts like backward time flow. Or is man not a union of matter and spirit? How then does exercising one's memory constitute "going back in time"?
With your given example, you should instead fight for intentionality in nature to support the existence of final causes. Look at your phrase again. In order to possess a unified sense of self between our past, present and future (principle of proportionate causality), in the present moment you retained the memory of "we can go back". In order to join the thought in the present, you looked to the future to close with "we can't do physically".
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I wasn't going to "fight for intentionality in nature to support the existence of final causes" for two reasons: A) I did that previously many moons ago by taking an example or two out of Feser's book; and B) virtually all who subscribe to Materialism as a world view will never admit to the existence of the Four Causes, [b]even though, as Feser correctly pointed out, we all know intuitively these causes exists. Only the Hcaps, Actors,Hanks and TJ's, etc. can deny with a straight face that the nature all life itself is goal-directedness. All is done for a purpose. But I will not waste my time arguing with the simple-minded.
And just because man is a union of matter and non-matter, doesn't imply that the two components can't
function very differently. In fact, they not only function differently, but the two components complement each other! I would remind you of the Trinity -- the triune God who is One; yet Father, Son and Holy Spirit have different functions. "I and the Father are One" -- BUT also -- "...the Father is greater than I", etc.
P.S. It just occurred to me that since you're read Feser's "The Last Superstition", you must know that he firmly believed that effects often occur in intellect prior to causes. You do agree with him, yes?
