A chain of alternate views

 

After viewing this together, old bachelor Plato turns to his most influential student and says, "My dear boy, you've been right all along." 

Aristotle, who embraces marriage (like everything else) with a sense of purpose and an appropriate sense of theological regard, replies, "Evidently, but I certainly have more questions than I had before."

Plato agrees: "You have often spoken of a telos, or end-cause, but does this end-cause, as you call it, push a soul, or does it draw, or pull, a soul to its eventual position or situation?"  

Aristotle: "As to that, my loving friend, one might instead dispense with the telos altogether and consider, thus: What then is the alternative? Take Happiness, for example. Are we compelled to Happiness by some telos, or should we dispense with the 'apparatus' of this word, and simply observe, 'Well, if not to Happiness, where else could, or should, we choose to go?' Could we indeed choose to move toward unhappiness?! Indeed, moving toward Happiness is part of our nature, if not part of our very substance and form." 

Plato: One way or another, in such matters how could I say you are wrong, Aristotle?"

Aristotle: "That, indeed, is the question."

A clue.

Once again, a possible Miltonic "teleology" of love and marriage, HERE. 

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