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[Anonymous No.15010558]

Hi /lit/ is there a reading flowchart like this one but for Aristotle?

[Anonymous No.15010600]

Yeah but the whole thing just says
>Jerk off to Abigaile Johnson

[Anonymous No.15010656]

>>15010558
This chart is stupid and so are you

[Anonymous No.15010668]

>>15010600
I want to escape from the coomer cave.

[Anonymous No.15010693]

At least I know you should start with Organon before all the others. Then apparently Physics, and I suggest real physics, since "knowing how" quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, singularities, and photons, operate is a MASSIVE aid to understanding Platonism, especially stuff like Plotinus or Proclus.
For example this is really simple from a physics starting point:

>Every thing eternal is a whole which subsists at once: whether it has its essence alone eternal, possessing the whole at once present, but not having one of its parts already constituted, and another to be constituted because it is not yet in existence, but as much as is possible it now possesses the whole without diminution and without extension — or whether it has its activity as well as its essence at once present, it possessing this likewise collectively, abiding in the same measure of perfection, and as it were fixed immovably and without transition according to one arid the same boundary.
>For if the eternal, as the name denotes, is unceasing being, but being and becoming to be are different from unceasing being, it is not right that it should have one thing prior and another posterior. For in that case it would be generation and not being. But where there is neither prior nor posterior, nor was and will be, but being alone, and this a whole, there every thing subsists at once that which it is. The same thing likewise takes place with respect to the activity of that which is eternal. [42]
>Corollary.— From this it is evident that eternity is the cause to wholes of their existence as wholes, since every thing which is eternal either in essence or in energy, has the whole of its essence or energy present to itself.

[Anonymous No.15010753]

>>15010693
eeh an unorthodox translation
here's another
Prop. 52.’ All that is eternal is a simultaneous whole.

>If its existence alone be eternal, that existence is simultaneously
present in its entirety; there is not one part of it which has already
emerged and another which will emerge later, but as yet is not; all
that it is capable of being it already possesses in entirety, without
diminution and without serial extension. If its activity be eternal
in addition to its existence, this too is simultaneously entire, stead¬
fast in an unvarying measure of completeness and as it were frozen
in one unchanging outline, without movement or transition.
>For if the ‘eternal’ ( aionion) means, as the word itself shows, that
which always is ( aei on), as distinct from temporary existence or
coming-to-be, then its parts cannot be distinguished as earlier and
later; otherwise it will be a process of coming-to-be, not something
which is (prop. 50). And where there is neither an earlier nor
a later, neither a ‘ was ’ nor a ‘ will be ’, but only a being what it is,
there each thing is simultaneously the whole of what it is. A like
argument applies to activity.
>Cor. From this it is apparent that eternity is the cause of things
existing as wholes, inasmuch as all that is eternal in its existence or
in its activity has the whole of its existence or activity simultaneously
present to it.

The above solves the Delayed-choice quantum eraser problem: entangled photons' time is internally equal and simultaneous, whatever will happen to either in "the future" (from our perspective) has already happened to both.