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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:AFDIA Zoom Book Club Meeting. This week - Chapter F
 ifteen!
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SUMMARY:AFDIA Zoom Book Club Meeting. This week - Chapter Fifteen!
DESCRIPTION:\"A Few Days In Athens\" Zoom Book Club Meeting. This week - Ch
 apter Fifteen!\n\nThis is a deep one!  Topics include:\n\nChapter 15 Summar
 y –  Theon Discusses Materialism With Metrodorus and Leontium [URL:https://
 afewdaysinathens.com/15-ChapterFifteen/]\n\nMetrodorus accuses Aristotle of
  pedantry.\nMetrodorus says that it is error to mistake mystery for wisdom\
 , pedantry for knowledge\, and prejudice for virtue.\nMetrodorus discusses 
 cause and effect and that there is a limit to how far back we can go.\nLeon
 tium explains how rationalism is error\, and that we must focus on observat
 ion.\nTheon accuses Leontium of “materialism” and Leontium replies that a m
 atter of fact can be neither moral nor immoral.\nLeontium says inquiry is e
 verything\; theory and hypothesis can be worse than nothing when they amoun
 t to preconceived abstractions of vice or virtue.\nLeontium says no moral t
 ruths are self evident\, but require observation and reasoning to determine
  the consequences of actions.\nLeontium addresses the “first cause” argumen
 t and responds that the universe is eternal and has no first cause.\nLeonti
 um addresses the argument that the universe is ‘ordered’ by observing that 
 what we see as order is only our perception of the way things are.\nMetrodo
 rus points out the error of considering atoms to be “inert” and asserts tha
 t life is a quality of matter.\nLeontium points out that qualities do not e
 xist apart from the matter with which they associated\, and that Aristotle 
 was wrong in asserting the opposite.\nFrances Wright interjects an editor’s
  note and laments that the scientists of her day adopt Epicurean ideas with
 out crediting Epicurus.\n\n\nNote: The use of video is strictly optional. W
 e welcome any of our friends who choose to use audio only.\n\n\n\nImportant
  Links:\n\nLink to PDF of the original book at Archive.org. [URL:https://ar
 chive.org/details/fewdaysinathensb00wrigiala?view=theater#page/n5/mode/2up]
 \n\nAFDIA Website with the entire book:  http://www.afewdaysinathens.com [U
 RL:http://www.afewdaysinathens.com/]\n\nRECURRING ZOOM LINK - USE THIS EACH
  SESSION:\n\n\n\nTopic: A Few Days In Athens - Zoom Book Review 2022\n\nTim
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