Folks, I am asking for some information. Any help will be appreciated. Does Thomas ever use the word, "Being," for "God?" If so, what is the Latin word? Peace,...
... From: <trey3777@...> ... Where does Aquinas say that Aristotle shows that the intellect can know all bodies? In the De Anima, Aristotle simple takes...
St. Thomas also does use ens about God; I Sent., D. 2., q. 1, a. 1, sed contra 1 I Sent. D. 19, q. 5, a. 1, corpus II Sent., D. 1, q. 1, a. 2, sed contra 2 II...
... I've brought this subject up numerous times and there seems to be little interest here in Thomas' theory of analogical predication (alas). Be that as it...
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G. Coughlin, Thank you very much. Peace, Finbarr [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
“... concludi potest ... esse aliquid quod est maxime ens, et hoc dicimus Deum” (CG, I,XIII). If the esse purum was not ens, we never would be able to know...
Greetings Tracy, Pasnau dismisses some of St. Thomas Aquinas accounts as "nothing more that an extended just-so story" page 368. Denis J.M. Bradley wrote a...
I seem to remember that for Aquinas, ens usually refers to a composite of two principles: esse limited by essence. But God is Esse unlimited, as it were,...
... Actually, he uses esse with reference to created beings too. Cf. De Ente. Daniel...
Daniel Scuiry
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Thank you Francisco. I will read the article. I very much appreciate the lead since so much scholarship leans toward Scotus and Occam that it has a tendency...
Did St Thomas ever get more specific with his spirituality? Did he prescribe, for instance, certain daily prayers or specific spiritual practices such as...
In De Anima II, 3.5 refers to Book II, Lectio 3, titled "The Soul's Powers in General", and In De Anima III, 3.13 is titled, "Problems Arising. Intellect as...
I remember that Aquinas wrote quite a bit about prayer as secondary causation, in the Summa I think. He also argued that prayer should be persistent. Jude ......
Anthony, There seems to me to be an inductive justification given by Aquinas in commenting on Aristotle as follows: "He says then, recapitulating (431b 20),...
... I haven't been following this thread, but there is an excellent work by Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP on St. Thomas. It is a two volume opus. The first, _St....
Stanley J. Ziobro II
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When I say below that Aquinas says that Aristotle refers to two modes of existence-- material and immaterial, I am referring specifically to the division...
I'm looking for something a little more specific. Like did he prescribe certain prayers? Meditation? Did he use or promote the rosary? Ron ... secondary ... ...
Thanks, I've added it to my shopping cart at amazon. Ron ... he ... spiritual ... work by ... The ... groundbreking ... and ... _St. ... and from ... various ...
... I would agree with this assessment. Ens is used rather broadly here and something of a bow to convention is made, with flexibility used to keep the...
Dear Ron, St. Thomas also wrote commentaries (or explanations) on the Credo, the Pater Noster and the Ave Maria. If these commentaries are not strictly...
