From Santiago de Viterbo: I firmly believe that our Lord has sent to his faithful, to illustrate them and illumine the Universal Church, first St. Paul; then...
Me neither. Ive added it to the files section of this list. If anyone wants to format it then thats up to them. ... luck ... <sparksthomas@y...> ... book...
Greetings everyone. I have spent the last week reading Ralph McInerny's _Aquinas and Analogy_ and thought Aquinas' theory of analogy and how it relates,...
Patrick, I'll get back with you. I read up on McInerny and the question of analogy some time back, but I need to brief myself again. The memory... You asked...
Thanks to Kevin for his response to my posting concerning the implicit Thomist doctrine of “ ipsum existentia subsistens ”, the voluminous references in...
Greetings Richard, I don't know if I'm understanding your question correctly. Are you trying to say that "Being" is a univocal genus? Genus: Being species: the...
Dear Francisco, Thanks for your response. ... No, but I can see why you might think this was my intention. I think I’ve only now realised the extent of the...
Greetings Richard, Wouldn't this distinction as you say carried also into esse, mean an infinte regress of distinctions? And you would end up with nothing...
Dear Richard Colledge and Others, My focus is on substance-accident metaphysics per se, rather than on the nature of God per se. But of course the problems are...
... An excellent review and critique of McInerny's recent work on analogy is found in The Thomist (April, 1998, 303-307). The reviewer, Rocca, a Dominican,...
James: Many thanks for your comments as well as the article. It cleared up many of my perplexities. Pax Christi, Patrick X. Gardner University of Notre Dame ...
... take the ... itself. ... Richard, how are you doing? On the question of the esse/essentia question, I give a rather comprehensive account (historical) of...
Dear Francisco, ... I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Are you alluding to the old Giles of Rome et al chestnut according to which both essence and...
Dear James, ... Would you mind passing along the details of that group to me when you have the chance (off-group if you wish). I found many of your comments...
Dear James, Many thanks for your reply. 1/ First a methodological issue: it's a little critcal of your post, but please accept it as a serious and constructive...
Richard: Thanks for your stimulating posts. I am but an aspiring Thomist with a very weak understanding of Thomistic metaphysics, but I will try my best to...
Let us think about Socrates. His act of existence is limited by his essence, which is potency. This potency, like the act of existence it limits, is unique to...
... That wasn't my term, and there are problems with it, but it makes some limited sense I think. See James G's example of Socrates as a human being vs his...
Jim, ... I'm suggesting that a better (and already well attested term) is "haecceity". Cf the usual language of "thatness" (existence), "whatness" (essence)...
1/ What I am suggesting is that there seems to be an imbalance: in Thomas' hands, 'to be' (esse, and thus the Gk einai) is almost synonymous with existence...
Hello all, I'm new here and have a question that's been driving me crazy. What are the methods or methodologies used by modern philosophies? If Descartes used...
... Thomas' ... This does not follow etymological nor historical usage. Richard. The Latin ESSE of Aquinas is not equivalent to the Greek EINAI. It follows...
I should present myself: Ulrich Voigt, author of Esels Welt. Mnemotechnik zwischen Simonides und Harry Lorayne (a treatise on the history of mnemonics, which...
Francisco, ... No. Presumably this is a response to the idea that essentia has a place within esse and that this would mean coming up with some sort of essence...
Dear James, ... Now this is really interesting. Are they not etymologically homologues? Of course the historical usage of a term will extensively colour the...
... Hello Ulrich, Welcome to the thomism list! I read your post, the one you mentioned, some time back. To answer your question, the one above, is quite ...
