I am almost giddy with today’s learnings! From my reading: For even if the end is the same for a single man and for a state, that of the state seems at all events something greater and more complete whether…
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Gratitude
St. Thomas writes: It is only right that we should be grateful not merely to those whom we think have found the truth and with whose views we agree by following them, but also to those who, in the search…
Tagged with: Aquinas, charity, disagreements, discover the truth, gratitude, truth
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Charity, Humility, Uncategorized
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Charity, Humility, Uncategorized
Aristotle, De Anima, and Aquinas
Alliteration always amuses me a lot. Sorry about that. I’ve got it out of my system now. I have written about St. Thomas’ commentary on De Anima before. I am going to do it again. Seriously: if you have any…
Tagged with: Aquinas, Aristotle, de anima, philosophy
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Aristotle, Books
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Aristotle, Books
What is a Form?
I have said it before, and I will say it again now, and I am quite certain that I will repeat myself more than once after this: to limit one’s reading of Aquinas to the Summa Theologiae is like reading…
Tagged with: Aquinas, Aristotle, forms, moderate realism, philosophy
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Aristotle
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Aristotle
While I am on the subject
Here is a quotation from CS Lewis that I think relates well to my previous post. If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage…
Tagged with: Aquinas, natural law
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Catechism, Natural Law
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Catechism, Natural Law
Reply to a Reader
Recently a gentleman left a couple comments in response to a post here, and I don’t think I did justice to his remarks. In this post I would like to rectify that situation. He begins with this: Unfortunately, it seems…
Tagged with: Aquinas, natural law, summa contra gentiles, summa theologiae
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Aquinas - Theology, Natural Law, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologiae
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Aquinas - Theology, Natural Law, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologiae
Aquinas the Catholic
Sometimes, and for reasons that honestly escape me, certain Protestants will attempt to say that St. Thomas was “one of them:” Not that he was literally Protestant of course, for that would be anachronistic, but rather some folks claim that…
Tagged with: Aquinas, Catholic Church, hermeneutics, original sin, Protestantism
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Theology, Blessed Virgin, Protestantism, Scripture, Sin
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Theology, Blessed Virgin, Protestantism, Scripture, Sin
Aquinas is Awesome
Unabashed Aquinas fanboy here. I could prattle on and on about the triumph that is the Summa Theologiae, a massive work that is astonishing for its lucidity, erudition, coherence, and comprehensiveness, or about the sheer brilliance of the Summa Contra…
Tagged with: Aquinas, Aristotle, astronomy, geocentrism, philosophy, science
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Aristotle
Posted in Aquinas - Philosophy, Aristotle
Perfect Mistake
Perfectionism is a blunder. It assumes that perfection is attainable by us imperfect creatures. Even the perfectionist knows he isn’t perfect. That is part of the pathology. It is what leads the average perfectionist to have a poor opinion of…
Genesis and Literalism
I have written about this subject before, and it came up again today whilst I was flipping through my notes. Once upon a time when I was still Protestant I adamantly stood for the literal 24-hour, 7-day interpretation of Genesis…
Tagged with: Aquinas, Augustine, Genesis, Literalism
Posted in Aquinas - Theology, Augustine, Creation, Scripture
Posted in Aquinas - Theology, Augustine, Creation, Scripture
Aquinas, Etc. 