Jmaes, I am an ex-Dominican priest who taught traditional Thomism at the Dominican School of Philsophy and Theology in Berkeley CA for several years. I also...
... Dear Jim, Thanks for writing and for joining the thomism list. I am glad that you are faithful to the magisterium and that you are familar with philosophy...
Hello Everyone! Anyone for a discussion? It has been a long time since anyone discussed anything! Thomism is the best of philosophies and theologies. James...
hey, james! This is gibby from the philippines and my friend and i were discussing this: How could God be creative if he is perfect? Of course there is the...
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What can a Thomist response to this be? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7127423.stm#soyinka ... Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast...
... The article covers several points, so I do not know what your specific issue is. But in general the article would seem to have no effect, for the...
Dear Everyone, Happy Feast Day of St. Thomas Aquinas! Prayers to our favorite saint of Catholic instruction and the Common Doctor, also known as the Angelic ...
According to Pope John Paul II, the French savant Rene Descartes "marks the beginning of a new era in the history of European thought." For this reason, Pope...
Dear James: I think it deserves sharing that Bertrand Russell points out in A History of Western Philosophy that the Cartesion cogito is first noticed in St ...
... That is hardly the best Augustine quote for the Cogito. Look at this text: "I am most certain that I am, and that I know and delight in this. In respect of...
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... the ... I ... this ... Dear Anthony, Notice that Augustine does not keep to a rigid "I think, therefore I am" starting point. He includes the certainty...
... Descartes is very clear that when he says "I think," he means ANY conscious experience whatsoever: "But what, then, am I? A thinking thing, it has been...
Dear Anthony, James and other members of the list, Being a layman in philosophy, I just would like to add a point: it seems to me that the philosophy of...
... The question then is, what caused the difference in its impact from the receiver's side? It wasn't the philosophy itself, since Augustine's philosophical...
... seems to me that the philosophy of Descartes is considered as the "root" or responsible for the anthropological turn not so much because of the novelty of...
... Neoplatonic philosophy was precisely the ORIGINAL dualistic philosophy. The separation between the soul as the seat of consciousness, and the body as a...
It might be a good idea to realize that Descartes' not-very brilliant and indeed short-sighted rationalism was a reaction against the hollow, inbred Jesuitical...
... I would deny this. Descartes' reaction was not merely against the Jesuit version of scholasticism, but also against that of Aquinas. The first meditation...
Well, I only agree to that. It is a fact that in central and eastern Europe cartesianism found little appreciation, at first, because there were in existence ...
... I think that this is a gross underestimation of Suarez. He is a great thinker, and suarezianism is a deep and unified system, just like thomism. The...
... Some parts yes, but some parts no. Descartes may not have understood all the intricate conclusions of scholasticism very well, but I think he did ...
... But it is only half of the truth that all previous philosophy based all knowledge on senses. There always were Augustinians, Platonists, Illuminationists...
Descartes clearly makes an anthropological turn. He does this by making knowledge of himself (the man) an object of study. We also see his attitude to career...
... I agree that much of scholasticism was scotized, but the basic principle that Descartes attacks - the senses - was just as Thomist as Suarezian. For...
St. Augustine of Hippo, a famous doctor of the Church, was first and foremost a bishop, consecrated in the service of his Catholic flock and given over to...
(The message below was sent to my mailbox, but was addressed to "everyone", so I forwarded the post to the list. : J.) Everyone, Yes, I think we can all...
