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Author Archives: Rchard E. Hennessey
A Diagram of the Trinity
Today my eyes fell on a diagram, the Scutum Fidei or “Shield of Faith,” the purpose of which is to set forth the relationships which classical Christianity believes to exist between and among the three persons of the Trinity, God … Continue reading
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Tagged After Aristotle, Demonstrative Arguments, Richard Hennessey, Sound Arguments, Trinity, Valid Arguments
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Conceiving of Exceptions to the First Principles
1. In my immediately previous post, the “First Thoughts on the First Principles” of January 19, 2018, I offered statements of the principles, of non-contradiction and excluded middle, recognized as “first principles” by classical philosophical thought. I further pointed to … Continue reading
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Tagged After Aristotle, First Principles, God, Irrationalism, Negation, Negation of the Principle of Excluded Middle, Negation of the Principle of Non-contradiction, Obverse, Particular Affirmative Proposition, Particular Negative Proposition, Peter Kreeft, Peter Kreeft's Socrates Meets Jesus, Principle of Excluded Middle, Principle of Non-Contradiction, Rationalism, Richard Hennessey, Trinity, Universal Affirmative Proposition, Universal Negative Proposition, Universalist Irrationalism
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First Thoughts on the First Principles
1. As I noted in the immediately previous post, (1) the coming semester will seem me teaching an “Introduction to Philosophy” course and (2) at least some, if not most, of the posts to come as the semester unfolds will … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell's Religion and Philosophy, First Principles, Introduction to Philosophy, Logic, Peter Kreeft, Peter Kreeft's Socrates Meets Jesus, Plato, Plato's Apology, Principle of Excluded Middle, Principle of Non-Contradiction, Socrates
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Postings During the Spring 2018 Semester
The primary reason why I have for some time not published any posts to this blog is that that my teaching responsibilities took over my professional life. There is also a secondary reason, that I have begun seeing a diminishing … Continue reading
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An Alternative to “Simultaneous” in the Logic of Priority and Posteriority
I am engaged in some thinking, surely elementary, about logical (or ontological) priority and posteriority and their analogy with temporal priority and posteriority. More specifically, I am thinking that, just as there is the one word, “simultaneous,” meaning “at the … Continue reading
Aquinas and the Theory of Comparative Intelligence
0. (This post is the tenth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.*) I devoted my post of September 19, 2017, “Aquinas’s Arguments for the Thesis That the Science … Continue reading →