Some members may be interested to know that a DVD has been produced for the Eric Voegelin Institute entitled "Voegelin in Toronto." For those Thomists who...
Can we say that, according to Aquinas, pure intellectual knowledge is always knowledge of the necessary? I remember from somewhere in Summa Theologica that the...
Does Aquinas allow for natural necessity and what does this entail and in what sense is the phantasm involved in making any determination as to natural...
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Oct 19, 2008 8:55 pm
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... and in ... to ... It is necessary in fact: necessarily valid in the formal sense, since the conclusion is the same as the second premise, and necessarily ...
Anthony any thoughts and texts related to the various questions? best [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Tracy Smith
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Does anyone out there have a translation of Book II, Distinction 26 of Aquinas' commentary on the sentences on Grace? I am interested in checking what I have...
Hello, I am interested to know about the existence of a web site with the complete works of Aquinas , in Latin. I didn't find it. Could you help to me, if...
Here is the website, which also has a wonderful index and other useful tools: http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/ jak ... complete works of Aquinas , in Latin....
www.corpusthomisticum.org ... From: Chaim Weismann To: aquinas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:18 PM Subject: [aquinas] Hello and Query ...
fra Sergio Parenti O.P.
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provi qui www.corpusthomisticum.org ... From: Michael Fagge To: aquinas@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 6:33 PM Subject: [aquinas] Commentary on...
fra Sergio Parenti O.P.
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Oct 24, 2008 9:04 am
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Fra Sergio, Spiacente, cercavo una traduzione in inglesi dal latino. Ho il latino. My Italian is almost non-existent. I need to check my English translation of...
Read to the end: =============================== Another 'champion of abortion' becomes defender of life: the story of Sotjan Adasevic Madrid, Nov 12, 2008 /...
Dear Friends, Would anyone have any good readings to recommend which relates Aquinas or Thomistic theology with Edward Schillebeeckx OP's theology? Or of the...
A distinction between theoretical, or what is often simply academic sociolgy, and applied sociolgy seems to be inorder. A welfare worker or social worker...
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Nov 17, 2008 3:40 am
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Dear Smith Many thanks for yours. Yes my own sense is that academic sociology or even academic policy thinking has a kind of detached-ness that leads one to...
I know Aquinas did not believe that there was a separate faculty called "conscience". He believed conscience to be an inference of practical reasoning from...
The other day I was talking to a friend about MacIntyre's critique of Hume and the idea that we cannot "derive an OUGHT from an IS". I told him I was ...
... For Aquinas, tradition in no way *defines* the function of human beings. The only reason MacIntyre placed such an emphasis on tradition is that he rejected...
I was very much hoping that you were still reading this forum, Anthony. Thanks! From: aquinas@yahoogroups.com [mailto:aquinas@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ...
Yes natural law theory depends on teleology for Aquinas, but to what extent does human law depend on custom and to an extent is relative to a given culture,...
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Does anyone know if blackstone's english common law was based on natural law theory, or did he consider common law to fall under the category of human law? ...
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Hi anthony, contact me by email. Want to discuss the univ of thomas aquinas with u. Thanks, Tracy Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed ... ...
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Hi john, one thing you might want to look at in Aquinas is the relationship between natural law and human law, and then these in relation to divine law. I...
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May 10, 2009 9:20 pm
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I have been reading Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments lately, and I see that I been badly misled by modern commentators in several important areas. For...
Tracy, we had an exchange of posts about a year ago in which I argued that the General Good trumps the good of the individual, and you disagreed. At the time,...
Hi John, ... can only be found in God, and so the fundamental problem with utilitarianism is epistemic. We cannot *know* the Good as God can know it. ... I...
Tracy Smith
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May 18, 2009 7:47 am
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This was beautiful. You and Antonio are both very generous to offer these long, substantive reflections / answers. If each virtue has its own separate TELOS,...
Hi John, one would need to check aristotle's list of virtues to see if any compete in any given circumstance. But if directed toward the mean or the good, then...
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May 18, 2009 4:25 pm
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But if there is tension and even contradiction, well the world of ethics is a messy place and not a place for the faint of heart. The question is valid and I'm...
tlsmith3777@...
May 18, 2009 4:42 pm
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Hi, In Luke 17: 3 Christ makes an example of the sherpard who abandons the remaining 99 sheep in search of the lost one. He left the general good for the...
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