Thomas Aquinas (Philosophy)
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The aim is to understand Aquinas’s assertion that true, good and beautiful are “transcendentals” that are “convertible with being”. That is, that everything that exists is necessarily true, good and beautiful. How does that relate to the... more
Encyclopedia entry on Natural Law and Natural Rights
This study argues that Aquinas’ account of tyranny grants citizens a surprisingly wide ambit for resistance to tyrants but that such actions demand a tall order for even the most virtuous citizens: knowledge of the hierarchy of ends in... more
This paper examines the methodology employed by Thomas Aquinas in his two derivations of the categories, or sufficientiae. In these accounts, he shows the distinctiveness of the ten Aristotelian categories as modes of being (modi essendi)... more
For students of Thomas Aquinas, Cornelio Fabro is well known for his thorough examinations of Thomas’s doctrine of participation. Less well known, however, is Fabro’s occasional reference to a doppia, or double, participation of the... more
Aquinói Szent Tamás: Az értelem egysége. Fordítás, tanulmányok és kommentárok: Borbély Gábor. Ikon Kiadó: Budapest, 1993.
Abstract. The article focuses upon the popular devotion for la Santa Muerte that emerged in Mexico and is gaining a rapid increase in notoriety in the country and abroad. The first sections reconstruct in detail its protean... more
A survey of the idea of justice in four medieval authors: Augustine of Hippo, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart
Fast alle Menschen reden dann und wann über Gott und die Welt. Aber wie ist eine reale Beziehung zwischen Gott und der Welt denkbar, wenn Gott im strengen Sinn unbegreiflich sein soll? Thomas von Aquin (1225-1274) und Peter Knauer (*1935)... more
Review to "John Finnis, Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi + 385."
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi + 385."
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Abstrak "tiap-tiap orang adalah filsuf" Soetiksno Tugas ini diminta oleh dosen pengasuh mata kuliah FILSAFAT HUKUM untuk diajukan sebagai salah satu syarat pemenuhan program mata kuliah paska sarjana pada Semester I di UNPAZ. Materi... more
This outline includes the complete text of Book V of the Aristotle's Metaphysics, both the Greek and an English translation. The Translation is a modification of W.D. Ross's translation, as revised by Jonathan Barnes. The detailed... more
I this article I tackle a series of questions related to beauty and aesthetic perception in Aquinas. Many of these questions orbit what we should make of Aquinas's claim "Pulchra enim dicuntur quae visa placent" (ST I.5.4ad1) In the... more
Thomas Aquinas is most renowned for his so-called "Five Ways" developed in the pursuit of determining and demonstrating the existence of God. The Five Ways originally revolve around the principles of natural theology, which is the basis... more
According to Thomas Aquinas, it belongs to metaphysics to study separate substances—not as its subject matter, but rather as the principles or causes of its subject, which is ens commune, or Being-in-general. In considering Thomas’s... more
According to Thomas Aquinas, God's essence is unparticipated and unparticipable. Yet at times, he presents 'esse subsistens', which is the divine essence, as somehow participated. This paper considers Aquinas's account of what such... more
Comenzamos, introduciéndonos en el modo específico del conocimiento propio de las acciones humanas en cuanto humanas, a partir de los presupuestos que corresponden a la teoría del conocimiento en general, sobre la base del pensamiento y... more
This chapter is a defense of Aquinas's perverted faculty argument against lying. Aquinas, following Augustine, held that lying is a misuse of speech. In lying the liar is using assertions contrary to their purpose. Many object to... more
I'm sorry to keep updating this translation, but new finds and new sources call for a new interpretation of the Greek text. As one uncovers Scholarios' sources his real genius comes to life. He reported that his Byzantine and Italian... more
Handout on the meaning of 'desiderium' in Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas.
The paper argues that Thomas Aquinas's characterization of God as ipsum esse subsistens is not to be taken to mean that the divine nature is nothing other than the nature of esse or that God is the platonic idea of being. In general,... more
(Spanish abstract, below) In this book, I study the problem of 'mental representation' in St. Thomas Aquinas' philosphy. After a long historical first chapter, when I try to show the most important positions in the History of philosophy... more
A seminar exposition of Aquinas's "De ente et essentia", Prologue & Chapter 1
"In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was with God; and the Word was God." So begins the Gospel according to St. John. And according to venerable scholastic and neo-scholastic traditions of commentary, so also is planted the seed... more
Di sini dirampungkan empat refleksi filosofis yang mengacu pada pemikiran St Thomas Aquinas tentang PENGENALAN AKAN TUHAN, KEBAHAGIAAN, IMORTALITAS, KEINDAHAN. Empat tema besar ini amat erat kaitannya dengan Filsafat maupun Teologi... more
Before addressing the morality of lying, one must start with an account of what constitutes a lie. This is important in order for one to see which speech acts fall under the condemnation of lying and which do not. Just as an incorrect... more
Wilfrid Sellars’s engagement with Thomism in “Being and Being Known” is examined, specifically for his reformulation of the thesis that the mind in its mental acts is in some sense identical in form to the object known. Bor- rowing the... more
Planteamiento del estado de la cuestión del tema del conocimiento intelectual del singular en santo Tomás de Aquino.
Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches that the proper cause of love in creatures is goodness that is conformable to the appetite insofar as it is known and apprehended, but he teaches elsewhere that the goodness of creatures is in turn caused by... more
This paper presents a Thomistic analysis of addiction that incorporates scientific, philosophical and theological features of addiction. I will argue first, that a Thomistic hylomorphic anthropology provides a cogent explanation of the... more
This paper presents a philosophical argument for divine providence by Aquinas. I suggest that upon returning to Aristotle’s Physics and Metaphysics to prepare his commentaries on these texts, Aquinas recognized that his stock argument... more
What does it mean to be an embodied thinker of abstract concepts? Does embodiment shape the character and quality of our understanding of universals such as 'dog' and 'beauty', and would a non-embodied mind understand such concepts... more
For Kant, Aristotle’s categories are arbitrary but brilliant and they don’t ultimately correspond to extramental reality. For Aquinas, however, they are rational divisions of extramental and real being. In this perennial and ongoing... more
Sommario: 1. Il problema del punto di partenza. 2. I valori come princìpi pratici. 3. I valori fondamentali come princìpi pratici fondamentali. 4. Conoscenza e riconoscimento dei valori. 5. Fondamentalità (irriducibilità, apertura),... more
Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice provides a dramatic setting for thinking about the relationship of mercy to justice, a topic of great concern to contemporary ethical and political thought. Traditionally classified as among Shakespeare’s... more
RESUMEN: Nos preocupa indagar sobre la sujecibilidad del apetito sensible. Para esto, primeramente, distinguiremos el alma como forma del alma como motor, para luego introducirnos en esta última temática. En seguida de esto pasaremos al... more
Aquinas thinks that if we want to understand causal interactions between material substances, we cannot focus exclusively on agents and their active powers. In his view, there are also passive potencies which enable material substances to... more