• Sin as described by St. Paul in his Letter to the Romans

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    23-03-2016 1 comments

    Sin as described by St. Paul in his Letter to the Romans

    In this series of thoughts about evil, now comes this text before Easter. It is the first vision of evil from a Christian point of view. St. Paul associates sin with Adam and with the law. Victory over sin is only possible for those who are in Christ, in the risen Christ.... read more...

  • Truth and falseness in the work of Aristotle

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    16-03-2016 0 comments

    Truth and falseness in the work of Aristotle

    'Since being and not being are said on the one hand in accordance with the figures of the categories and on the other in accordance with the potentiality or actuality of these or of their opposites, and by third as what is in the most proper way true or false, and since this as regards things is as the result of their being ... read more...

  • Aristotle about evil

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    09-03-2016 3 comments

    Aristotle about evil

    For Aristotle, ‘actuality’ is the true good; ‘potentiality’ contains, besides the good, also the possibility of all error. Here follows a quote from Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Theta. In a pure thinking way he develops the idea of the perfect, of the good and, arising from this perfect, the potentia... read more...

  • Creation in Plato's work

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    02-03-2016 1 comments

    Creation in Plato's work

    According to Plato, all human creatures had the same qualities at the beginning. But because the coming together of soul and body leads to uncertainty and chaos, all beginning is difficult. It is a great learning-process, to become 'the most religious of soul-given creatures'. And it is placed in the hands of the created hum... read more...

  • The tree of knowledge - Our wandering away from the Garden of Eden

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    24-02-2016 4 comments

    The tree of knowledge - Our wandering away from the Garden of Eden

    In ancient times Pythagoras described the sound of the cosmos as a harmony of the spheres, in relation to the arithmetic composition of the cosmos. He felt God as a Master Arithmetist and Geometrist. Johann Sebastian Bach became a master composer, he founded the technique of harmonies in fugues, and we can sense in them an a... read more...