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Although Murray Rothbard gave high praise to the economic teachings of Thomas de Vio Cardinal Cajetan, portraying him as proto-Austrian, this article argues that the reality is more complicated. Examining Cajetan’s three major economic... more
Are all God’s activities identical to God? If not, which are identical to God and which not? Although it is seldom noticed, the texts of Aquinas (at least on the surface) suggest conflicting answers to these questions, giving rise to a... more
The essay considers the two most significant figures in the emergence of the thesis of the Church's infallibility in formal canonizations, namely Melchior Cano and Thomas Aquinas, who together established the strongest and most frequently... more
This article deals with the thought of Thomas de Vio Cajetan on sacramental instrumentality, in conversation with Sylvester de Ferrara and Louis-Marie Chauvet.
conciliarist work, found in the Dis-putationes de controversiis Christianae fidei adversus huius temporis haereticos, emphasizing his theolog-of conciliarism. Bellarmine sees the conciliarists as attacking the divinely instituted Petrine... more
I will proceed in three parts: First, I will consider briefly the classic dispute between Luther and Cajetan on the power of the keys, with the goal of clarifying the ecclesiological nature of the sacrament of penance. Second, I will... more
Certains théologiens et certains canonistes considèrent qu'un pape peut tomber dans l'hérésie. Selon eux, il devrait alors être déposé par un concile général. Cette théorie remonte au Décret de Gratien (XIIe siècle). Elle a engendré les... more
Many writers have recognised that Thomas does not present us with a theory of analogy. Rather what we see in his numerous works is how Aquinas uses analogy. This creates ambiguity and difficulties for scholars trying to reconstruct a... more
in: L’analogia dell’essere. Testi antichi e medievali, a cura di R. Salis, G. Catapano, C. Martini, Padua Univeristy Press, Padova 2020, pp. 233-255
Como los hábitos resumen nuestra vida al modo de una segunda naturaleza, Santiago Ramírez sostiene que ésta debe indagarse desde su principio, comenzado por los hábitos principales que determinan nuestro conocer y obrar. Rescatando el... more
Fifty-plus years ago, Ralph McInerny’s The Logic of Analogy characterized Francis Silvestri of Ferrara’s doctrine of analogy as a confusing hybrid of the thought of Thomas Aquinas and of Thomas Cajetan. Since then scholarship on 15th... more
A diferencia del orden natural, el hábito de los primeros principios sobrenaturales no es una especie átoma sino un género de hábitos intelectuales, en el que sobresale el don de intellectus. Para una adecuada comprensión del mismo,... more
Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition presents a reading of Thomas Aquinas’ claim that “being” is the first object of the human intellect. Blending the insights of both the early Thomistic tradition (c.1380—1637AD) and... more
En la interpretación y desarrollo por parte de la escuela tomista de las tesis de Tomás de Aquino sobre el conocimiento intelectual del individuo material, han predominado dos tradiciones: la que encuentra en Cayetano su máximo... more
The aim of this paper is to make a first approach to the late scholastic debate concerning the love of God towards possible creatures. I start with brief exposition of the historical background of the debate and the main positions of... more
This study offers a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which commentators interpreted the rhetoric of the Letter to Philemon from the fourth to the eighteenth century. For this purpose, fifty commentaries that appeared during... more
The paper discusses, how Aquinas's theory on law and conscience has been received and transformed, especially in Suárez and Cajetan
Revised, Spanish-language version of paper presented at Marquette University, 2005 (see below). Abstract: In this paper I ask the question “what is the end of religious worship?” It would seem that the end cannot be God, for he cannot... more
Antonino (Antoninus) of Florence (1389-1459) had an enormous influence on the Renaissance , and in some way, the Reformation and even the Counter-Reformation. Such varied figures as Marsilio Ficino, the Medici family including the Medici... more
Any philosophical framework compatible with Christianity should be able to explain at a philosophical level why Jesus' human nature is not a human person. I briefly review the explanations of this fact proposed by Scotus and Suarez out of... more
Although Murray Rothbard gave high praise to the economic teachings of Thomas de Vio Cardinal Cajetan, portraying him as proto-Austrian, this article argues that the reality is more complicated. Examining Cajetan’s three major economic... more
The paper deals with two important philosophers of the Renaissance, Cajetan and Suárez, who represent important movements in the scholastic thought. It focuses on the topics of philosophical psychology, more precisely on the relationship... more
This paper presents a problematic argument in Aquinas’ Summa (I.60.5), where he claims that, in general, the part loves the whole more than itself and, therefore, all creatures love God more than themselves. I contend that this argument,... more
In his Summa theologiae Aquinas argues that humans, and in fact all creatures, naturally love God more than themselves. The main argument he gives for this claim is that everything that naturally belongs to another loves the other more... more
Earlier, English-language version of paper presented at Universidad Panamericana, 2010 (see above). Abstract: In this paper I ask the question “what is the end of religious worship?” It would seem that the end cannot be God, for he... more
“Sixteenth-Century Reception of Aquinas by Cajetan,”
in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas
Edited by Matthew Levering and Marcus Plested
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021: 144–58
in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas
Edited by Matthew Levering and Marcus Plested
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021: 144–58
The problem of divine attributes was one of the most intensely debated topics in the 17-18th century Irish philosophy. Simply put, the problem revolves around the ontological question (i) whether human and divine attributes differ in... more
This study analyses the philosophical difficulty in interpreting the act of being comes from the multiplicity of meanings of the term “esse” (to be) according to the most significant authors of the Thomistic school. They are intended to... more
The present article treats the life and works of Thomas Aquinas and his reception within the scholastic traditions up to 1879 (Aeterni patris). The first two sections introduce the life and works of Thomas Aquinas, with a particular focus... more
The article is a preliminary analysis of the analogy in Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas. Starting with the preliminary definition and presentation of the fundamental analogies, the key writings of the Summa underlying its in-depth... more
Publié dans : Hétérodoxies croisées. Catholicismes pluriels entre France et Italie, XVIe-XVIIe siècle, dir. Gigliola Fragnito et Alain Tallon, Rome, École française de Rome, 2017, p. 197-215.
This paper aims to develop a response, based on an analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas’s texts, to the following questions: What is the end of worship? Why do we worship God? What benefit does God derive from our worship? Alternatively,... more
This article investigates the 15th Century Thomist background to Thomas di Vio Cajetan's De Nominum Analogia by comparing and contrasting the positions of John Capreolus, Dominic of Flanders, and Paul Soncinas on participation in... more