Aquinas On The Construction Of The Sciences
1. Logic s a teaching method, and as a branch of philosophy. Thomas asks whether logic is an art or a science, and come to the conclusion that it is both. The thirteenth century, in fact, considered...
View ArticleThe Aesthetic Aspect Of The Universe
1. Art, Nature, and Beauty. Themselves contemporaries of a tremendous artistic development, which ranks the thirteenth century among the great creative epochs, the Schoolmen did not neglect the study...
View ArticleClassification Of The Sciences And Divisions Of Philosophy
1. Particular and General Sciences. At the time of the thirteenth century, the West possessed a comprehensive classification of the sciences, which we may well look upon as one of the characteristic...
View ArticleEthics and Natural Law, Part 1, Chapter 1
What follows is an excerpt from MORAL PHILOSOPHY, by Joseph Rickaby. Links and text in red represent my additions. The sole purpose of the first chapter is to summarize certain introductory points....
View ArticleA Simple Summa: The Eternity of God
Eternity is well defined by Boethius, interminabilis vitae tota simul et perfecta possessio, the perfect and simultaneous possession of interminable life. We know what is simple by that which is...
View ArticleSumma Contra Gentiles Bk. 1, Ch. 11
Chapter 11 Refutation Of The Foregoing Opinion And Solution Of The Aforesaid Arguments. St Thomas is here responding to the arguement presented in the last chapter. The foregoing opinion arose from...
View ArticleAquinas On Why We Fast
1. We fast for three reasons. (a) To check the desires of the flesh: First, in order to bridle the lusts of the flesh, wherefore the Apostle says (2 Cor. 6:5, 6): “In fasting, in chastity,” since...
View ArticleAquinas on the Temptations of Christ
Note: Today’s meditation is on why it was FITTING that Christ be tempted. Monday’s post will be on WHY Christ had to be tempted. Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the...
View ArticleAquinas On Why Christ Had to Be Tempted
He was in the desert forty days and forty nights: and was tempted by Satan.-Mark 1:13 1. It was by Christ’s own will that he was exposed to temptation by the devil, as it was also by his own will that...
View ArticleCatholic Philosophers Online (videos)
For some reason I cannot post video on this site, so I’ve made them available in several different posts on my other blog, which is also called THE DIVINE LAMP. Please update your bookmark and blog...
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