... ac ... and ... Dear Joan, I have no access to Cajetan's commentary, but In STh II, II, q. 17, 1, Aquinas defines the object of hope as "a future good,...
HELLO YOU ALL! I found this discussion-list and joined immediately. It seems fine to me. I´m a 33 year man from Tampere, Finland. I´m trying to finish my ...
I came across a useful summary of 20th century thomists on esse in Helen John Jones Recent Thomists on the Act of Existing, in International Philosophical...
J.L.A. West
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Apr 5, 2002 3:36 pm
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... Helen ... Sounds interesting to me. Do You have any idea from where I might ask for it. Here in Finland we do not have such recourses. But we have one...
That's what I'd like to know. I have some issues I'd like to hear discussed, such as Aquina's emanationism in comparison to Plotinus, or Proclus or other...
Hello - no, there are still people on the list. Shall we try to get a discussion going? Michael Radigan...
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May 6, 2002 3:13 pm
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Ian, perhaps you'd like to start the conversation off? Michael Radigan...
CMRadigans@...
May 6, 2002 3:31 pm
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Hi! Here's my 'problem': emanationism is generally seen as the trademark of Neo-platonism whtehr it's in Plotinus, Proclus, Iamblichus and so on. Now Aquinas...
Ian, forgive my ignorance, but could you elaborate a bit on your view that Aquinas was an emanationist? Emanationism, as identified with Plotinus, has been...
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May 6, 2002 6:16 pm
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Dear Jude, No, I haven't. Can you tell me where I might get it? Thanks and best wishes, Ian ... From: Jude Chua Soo Meng To: aquinas@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Norris Clarke's essay in the 1960s is republished in his collection of essays "God- Being- Person: Explorations in Metaphysics" UNDP. The essay is "The...
... Perhaps it would help to examine the Thomistic idea of participation, since it is also commonly thought that participation is something Aquinas takes from...
St. Thomas may or may not have been an emanationist, depending upon what you mean. Can you tell us what you're understanding by the word "emanationism?" Be as...
Jim Newland
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May 7, 2002 4:47 am
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... Neo-platonism whtehr it's in Plotinus, Proclus, Iamblichus and so on. ... Question 45, Articles 2 and 4. (I hope I got that right; I have the Summa and...
Jim Newland
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May 7, 2002 5:30 am
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... In the following text at In Phys. VIII L.2 C:973-974, Aquinas explicitly says how he draws his views on creative emanation from Aristotle: "For it is clear...
Dear Friends, Reagrding emenation: below are three questions from the Summa which strike me as clearly endorsing some form of emanationism, though not the...
... Quite obviously there is a neoplatonic doctrine of emanation from the One and the Good who is beyond all being. This is a matter of historical record...
... The question, specifically, is not whether there is a neoplatonic doctrine of emenation, but whether there is one from Aristotle from which Aquinas draws....
... Anthony, This is not directed at you but I think the question of emanationism has been conflated with participationism. Aquinas' derives his...
Daniel Scuiry
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May 8, 2002 6:22 pm
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... I was referring to the question raised by Ian in which he asks, "Does this mean that there is an Aristotelian emanationism as well as a Platonic...
... Oops! I meant Aristotelian and NOT Plotinian. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Daniel Scuiry
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May 8, 2002 7:17 pm
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... I'm not sure about that, since the fourth way specifically deals with causal participation, and there he explicitly cites the Metaphysics II text, the very...
... But he does quite explicitly and specifically say in the Physics commentary text that it directly *follows* from what Aristotle says that the first cause...
... I'm not sure Aquinas has one single sense of causality. Cf. for example De Ente which is participationism pure and simple; it's not based on efficient ...
Daniel Scuiry
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May 8, 2002 9:34 pm
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Could emanationism have come from Aristotle? His view of God as the Unmoved Mover thinking upon itself, i.e. a 'producer' and 'product' situation is certainly...
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