294 ROMAN A. KOCOUREK 



Thus where Aristotle arrived at a society where man is ordered 

 to speculation of things which are above man, the moderns 

 place man in a society or " social grouping " which has no law 

 " which is in any sense imposed from without." The end of 

 man in this latter society will be not the contemplation of the 

 world, but will consist rather in remaking the world according 

 to the finite capacity of his own intellect. Or, as someone has 

 said, " The purpose of philosophy is not to explain the world 

 but to change it." 



It seems, therefore, that how we study Nature and how we 

 define motion and the ideas used in that study will make an 

 important difference in our conception of man and his role in 

 the universe. The wordy and confused notion of motion which 

 was used by Aristotle in his analysis enabled him to arrive at 

 a universe which is open to something higher than man, while 

 the clear concept of the motionless motion of modern science 

 ends in a " hollow universe," closed about the small and finite 

 intellect of man himself. 



Roman A. Kocourek 



College of St. Thomas, 



St. Paul, Minnesota. 



