sublunary

“Among other things, many ignored the reality that millions of African Americans were quite pleased with the decidedly sublunary consolations of equal protection under the law.”

Aristotelians therefore recognize that, in the sublunary sphere, there are no regularities which do not have exceptions; in the supralunary sphere, all is regularity without exception; there are no regularities which apply in both spheres.

He is scrupulously genial and polite, and happy to talk about theories of spacetime, but extremely reluctant to say anything on the record about the book’s more sublunary themes and ideas.

But change is the only constant in our sublunary world, as writers down the centuries have noted; Powell, too, knew this well.

For Plato, the sublunary world was a distorted projection of the world of essences.