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Aquinas’s Thesis of the Identity of the Intellect Knowing and the Intellectual Object Known

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Rchard E. Hennessey

This post is the eighth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics.* 0. In a previous post, the “Touching upon the Theory of Act and Potency,” of August 23, … Continue reading →

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Touching upon the Theory of Act and Potency

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. I’ll start this post, the sixth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle,* with a brief overview of the posts that have seen the light of … Continue reading →

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Metaphysical Pluralism. An Appendix to “The Principle of Metaphysical Realism”

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. In my immediately previous post, “The Principle of Metaphysical Realism,” I presented said principle, that There is at least something. or that At least something exists. as “the utterly basic, and thus absolutely first, principle of metaphysics,” prior even … Continue reading →

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The Principle of Metaphysical Realism

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. This post is the third in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. In the immediately previous post, I spelled out and then criticized one of the very … Continue reading →

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Feser’s The Last Superstition on the Manner of Existence of the Final Cause

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. In “Aristotelian Realism in the Theory of Universals of Feser’s The Last Superstition,” my post of February 17, 2015, I continued my discussion of the problem of universals. In that post I took as my point of departure Edward Feser’s … Continue reading →

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Universals in Feser’s The Last Superstitution. A Neo-Aristotelian Alternative to Realism in the Theory of Universals

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Rchard E. Hennessey

1. As I noted in the immediately previous post, the “Feser on Faith in The Last Superstition 1: Pure Reason and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ” of January 16, 2015, I foresee that the second post in the series I am … Continue reading →

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Reading Alain Badiou’s Being and Event 6: The Thesis of the “Impasse” Which Is the “Reciprocity of The One and Being”

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. I thought it more than nearly time for me to return to the text itself of Badiou’s Being and Event. So return to it I will and to more particularly to the opening paragraph of the first chapter proper … Continue reading →

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The Beginnings of a Neo-Aristotelian Critique of the Aristotelian Philosophy of Mathematics

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. The purpose of the present post is to take a first step in spelling out the “neo-Aristotelian,” as its tagline characterizes it, point of view motivating this blog. First, the “Aristotelian” of the “neo-Aristotelian” remains apt, despite the “neo.” … Continue reading →

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Reading Alain Badiou’s Being and Event 5: Pluth on the Subject of Ontology

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. For all too many weeks now I have been kept away from posting by an upwelling of a variety of matters needing attention, some taken on willingly and some, well, not so much. They have not, however, quite kept … Continue reading →

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Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event” 2: Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy Is Not Mathematics

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. In my previous post, “Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event”: An Introduction (Or Perhaps Not),” I began the task of cautiously determining, as best I could, just what the theses constituting the philosophy of Alain Badiou might be, a task … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Neo-Aristotelianism

Aquinas’s Thesis of the Identity of the Intellect Knowing and the Intellectual Object Known

Touching upon the Theory of Act and Potency

Metaphysical Pluralism. An Appendix to “The Principle of Metaphysical Realism”

The Principle of Metaphysical Realism

Feser’s The Last Superstition on the Manner of Existence of the Final Cause

Universals in Feser’s The Last Superstitution. A Neo-Aristotelian Alternative to Realism in the Theory of Universals

Reading Alain Badiou’s Being and Event 6: The Thesis of the “Impasse” Which Is the “Reciprocity of The One and Being”

The Beginnings of a Neo-Aristotelian Critique of the Aristotelian Philosophy of Mathematics

Reading Alain Badiou’s “Being and Event” 2: Badiou and the Thesis That Philosophy Is Not Mathematics

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