{Classes and Societies [continued (5)]}[20th October 1988]

[Redbook6:12][19881020:1415]{Classes and Societies [continued (5)]}[20th October 1988]

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With the exception of the first stage,* Aristotle’s five stages of development of civilisation (‘On Philosophy’)** show a clear Inner Circle development:

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	(1) Creation of necessities	|	(5) Divine Philosophy:#
		C		(Natural Philosophy: study of the material causes of existing things[)]
				Leisure for intellectual adventure
				Emergence of well-regulated state
(2) The Arts that refine life		+	M~	(4) Knowledge of proper use of the necessities and refinements of life
		(3) The art of Politics

#Divine Philosophy: above the material world – formal and final causes – ineffable[?] aspect of reality – & purpose that informs all change.

I hope that the attempt to fit patterns to Circles is not becoming ‘too much’. What is interesting about this one is that with the exception of the first stage, I cannot for the life of me see how in practice this development is found in the history of Civilisation, or of civilisations. Perhaps that is why our civilisation leaves something to be desired.

*or does that correspond to the Creation itself? (ie of the Universe)

**(per E[ncylopaedia] B[ritannica] XIV.61 Aristotelianism)

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