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Tag Archives: Thomas Aquinas
Universals in Feser’s The Last Superstitution. A Neo-Aristotelian Alternative to Realism in the Theory of Universals
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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Tagged Accidental Property, Anti-Realism in the Theory of Universals, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy, Concepts, Conceptualism, Edward Feser, Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition, Neo-Aristotelianism, Nominalism, Numbers, Plato, Plato’s Theory of Forms, Property, Propositions, Realism in the Theory of Universals, Resemblance, Substantial Form, Thomas Aquinas, Universals, Words
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Chastek and the Aristotelico-Thomistic Theory of Time. An Aristotelian Critique
0. In “Our contribution to motion and time,” his January 3, 2015, post to his blog, Just Thomism, James Chastek offers a brief statement of the Aristotelico-Thomistic understanding of time. Time is a sort of measure, and so presupposes some contribution … Continue reading
Garrigou-Lagrange and the Matter of Infinite Causal Regress
0. In “Two Questions re Thomistic Metaphysics. A Plea for Their Answers,” my post of June 4, 2014, I noted: I am in the process of preparing myself, and hardly for the first time, for an effort at coming to a … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidentally Subordinated Causes, Aristotle’s Physics, Causality, First Mover, First Way, Infinite Regress, Necessarily Subordinated Causes, Past Movers, Patrick Cummins O.S.B., Present Movers, Principle of Realism in the Theory of Change, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange's La synthèse thomiste, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange's Reality, Thomas Aquinas
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Garrigou-Lagrange on Trinity and Triple Identity
0. Introduction. In “The Inconsistency of the Doctrine of (the Distinction of Divine Persons and so That of) the Trinity with Monotheism,” my post of April 4, 2014, I presented what I take to be a rigorous proof of, as its … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Spiration, Divine Filiation, Divine Paternity, Divine Relation, Francisco Suarez, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Monotheism, O.P., Passive Spiration, Principle of Triple Identity, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Reality, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange's Reality, The "Logic” of Identity, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas' Commentary on Aristotle's Physics, Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, Thomism, Transitivity of Identity, Trinity
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Aquinas’s Argument That One Science Must “Rule” the Others. A Critical Assessment.
0. This post is the second in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Aquinas’s Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle. In my immediately previous post, I stated that this post would be focused upon the … Continue reading →