The recent message from Thomas Sparks in which he advocated the expulsion and subjugation of Jews was irrelevant to the topic of this list. In addition, the...
I attended a conference presentation about the real distinction, and the presenter went through about 4 or 5 Thomists all of whom denied that the real...
In a message dated 11/2/03 2:37:38 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... The key to this passage is that the essence of what a human or phoenix is, is not restricted...
... Correction, I was speaking loosely. Man is a species of animal and not of the individuals. I was attempting to say that man is a species and Peter and ...
In a message dated 11/2/03 9:44:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Divine ideas in Aquinas is the exemplar cause of things and are created in virtue of God's...
In a message dated 11/2/03 10:45:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Should read "and things are created in virtue of God's divine ideas and in virtue of an act...
I have heard some Thomists refer to essence and existence as the "third degree of participation". Can someone explain this to me? What are all the "degrees of...
Daniel Scuiry
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Nov 3, 2003 4:45 pm
5816
... You seem to be saying that the distinction is in fact not "real," but merely a distinction of reason. The text below is more precise on this point: "For...
In a message dated 11/3/03 2:08:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Agreed. Although there is a real distinction in all things, the distinction discussed earlier...
... That shows that there is a real distinction between substance (elephant) and accident (white or gray), not a real distinction in the accident itself, which...
I am reading through Maritain's Degrees of Knowledge primarily to see (1) exactly how he tries to defend philosophy from skepticism, and (2) whether the way he...
... This is true mostly because the universal cannot be predicated of the whole. For example, we cannot say that you, Anthony, ARE HUMANITY. It is predicated...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Nov 4, 2003 5:49 pm
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... Anthony, Do you think that maybe Aquinas' and Aristotle's example of non-contradiction have to do with the double affirmation of truth and falsehood at the...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Nov 4, 2003 7:02 pm
5822
... skepticism ... directly ... could not ... necessarily ... actually ... and ... given the ... both ... Yes, but they also argue that the double affirmation...
... I'm not sure I understand your point. If possible being is the sufficient condition for refuting scepticism, I'm not sure I understand how the example is a...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Nov 4, 2003 8:20 pm
5824
... Mere possible being does not mean sensory skepticism to be false, because sensory skepticism is uncertainty about whether what we sense ACTUALLY exists,...
... Yes. ... Exactly. ... Well, I don't read the Gamma argumentthat way. Yes, it does entail the denial of the first principles of knowledge, i.e., the...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Nov 4, 2003 10:15 pm
5826
In a message dated 11/4/03 9:55:58 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... Daniel and Anthony, Aquinas' second way draws upon the nature of the efficient cause and...
... I'm not sure how the quotes I posted would be related to the issue of the potential intellect, because the possible being that he is talking about is the...
... Anthony, I think the simple reading of Maritain's position is summed up in your emphasized quote, "POSSIBLE EXTRAMENTAL BEING." Isn't the intellect with...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Nov 5, 2003 5:14 pm
5829
... Self-reflexive knowing still requires sensation, according to Maritain: "19. ...In one way or another, every existential apprehension originates in this...
... I think this confirms my point. Maritain is advancing a different argument. ... But he's not arguing from the actual existence of the external world; he is...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Nov 5, 2003 11:05 pm
5831
You know, there are times when you just have to smack yourself for being so dense. This is one of those times for me, Daniel. My argument was that if X does...
... This is precisely my problem with "critical realism". It only begs the question by pushing the starting point one step back :) I don't think you can get to...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Nov 6, 2003 4:23 pm
5833
... On p. 134 of Degrees of Knowledge (1959), Maritain specifically brings up that question (he even mentions the Evil Genius argument), and asks "must we not...
... Anthony, I think we are on the same page. I've always had a sneaking suspicion that critical realism is just another subspecies of Phenomenology, a kind of...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Nov 6, 2003 6:24 pm
5835
I am writing a paper on sufferng/evil and want to compare and contrast Thomas Aquinas'with another author. Any suggestions? Thanks...
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