Contrary to nave realism, then, it will be explicated how Aquinas' realism was a precursor of "critical realism", as he discerned the complex interaction of thinking subject and the being of the object as both bearing on the production of knowledge....
Medieval distinction between the ontological order and the epistemological order. For example, St. Thomas Aquinas believed that God is the ground of existence for all other beings. Read More July 9, 2018 The Thomistic Cosmological Argument The Thomistic cosmological argument attempts to reason ...
How did Aquinas prove the existence of God? What are the key elements of Aquinas' Cosmological Argument, and how do they address the concept of contingency and the need for a first cause in explaining the existence of the universe?
Aquinas categorized his arguments to prove the existence of god into five ways. The first way is the argument from motion. There are many things which are moving, it is not that all of a sudden everything started moving. The first mover caused the others to move and so on. This motion...
In an example of Canadian Law that contradicts natural law of self-preservation is Section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada, otherwise known as the spanking law. It states that “every schoolteacher, parent or person standing in the place of a parent is justified in using force by way of...
Alasdair MacIntyre, ascent/descent, atheism, chastened intellectualism, Gnosticism, ibn Sīnā, intimacy/integrity, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas P. Kasulis, Yoga Sūtras It seems to me that the concepts of ascent and descent allow relatively easily for intermediate positions between them, compromises that ...
Ontological status of evil in the ethics of Thomas AquinasNora Bozhilova
I identify the so-called "Causal Argument" for a reductive view of secondary qualities and seek to deflect this challenge by deriving some plausible consequences that support a non-reductive view of secondary qualities from an Aristotelian view (via the philosophical commentary of Thomas Aquinas). ...
I tackle Thomas Cajetan's analysis of this problem: this analysis is more sophisticated than that developed by Aquinas鈥攚hose texts had been commented upon by Cajetan. Cajetan distinguishes two senses of "real" and of "unity," in order to speak of the reality and of the unity of essences...
Love and the Capacity to Love An Ontological Analysis of Love According to Ibn Sina and Thomas Aquinasdoi:10.24071/JAOT.2020.020204Albertus Joni