Below are the texts and exposition of Thomas' view that the human person is the proper subject of human knowledge and understanding. According to Aquinas:...
I am not sure, James, if the text you posted a few days ago is intended to be your answser to the question we have been discuss. I think it is obviously...
... These texts are the support for the first part that I gave you some time back, about the human person being the proper subject of human knowledge and...
... It's not that you have to drop the discussion. But it does not have a direct bearing on the question of the reflex action of the intellect of every soul...
... The main points of Knasas and Dewan (including in the article you cite from Dewan: , "St. Thomas, Physics, and the Principle of Metaphysics" (The Thomist,...
... Wallace, ... the ... all ... Sorry, I didn't have time and I didn't think that you had done justice to Dewan's analysis by quoting two sentences from his...
... James, I really think that you need to address the specific **textual** objections that I made to the readings of Dewan and Knasas before simply citing...
... own ... cite ... Metaphysics" ... Aquinas ... justice ... not ... readings by ... are ... **textual** ... simply ... As I said before, I do not think...
... The subject of the intellect's knowledge is subordinate to the more general point about the starting point of metaphysics, because if the Laval reading is...
... From: Anthony Crifasi <crifasian@...> To: thomism@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 9:18 pm Subject: Re: [thomism] Re: The understanding of a...
We have shown that Aquinas holds that the human person is the proper subject of knowledge and understanding: that is to say, any objective knowledge or...
... to ... address ... all ... do ... that as ... discussion. ... given ... Not at all. The individual human person exists as a spiritual being (whose...
... more ... the ... thought of. ... itself ... It is true that the issue of the manner of knowing of our immateriality is of import to the discussion of...
James ... I have no idea what you're talking about. ... The specific question we were discussing was the intellect's knowledge of itself, and whether or not...
... Sorry: my demonstrative pronoun had an obscure referent. I was agreeing with you that we are at present talking about the way the intellect knows itself...
The following sentence: The arguments I have seen usually fail, in my opinion, because they do not distinguish failure to see contradiction from the existence...
... Aquinas explicitly says that the intellect in reflex understands itself and its act. There is nothing plainer than this, and this statement is so simple...
Below is the teaching of the Church on the question of knowledge of God and his existence. Notice man can realize the existence of God, not only through the...
The Catholic Church in its authorized catechism has claimed that the proof for the existence of God can be discovered through a person's desire for happiness....
To James Miguez My word, James, why is it that the only time you quote people is not to talk with them, and to appreciate what they are saying, but to...
... to talk with them, and to appreciate what they are saying, but to defensively correct them? ... What is wrong with posting G. LaGrange, a thomist, on the...
... down" answer has exactly proven my point! ... Another ad hominem. But no real discussion of the proof of the existence of God from desire for happiness. ...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." ~George Bernard Shaw...
... point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." ... What does this quote have to do with the proof for the existence of God through...
The quote's point is that the will's desire for happiness is blind, as such, unless the good thus desired is first known by the intellect. Desire, as such...
... Well, you're repeating yourself, so I will too: to understand the reflexivity of the act and to understand that it is acting are obvious and a child can...
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