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....
The first three were "cosmological" proofs rather than the "ontological" approach of St. Anselm. A cosmological proof deals with the natural order of the universe. Aquinas' most famous cosmological argument was that whatever is in motion (for example, us) must have been put in motion by ...
this ahistorical experience–belief–community schema haunts their work. Aaron Hughes—editor ofMethod and Theory in the Study of Religion(alongside Steven Ramey)—asked me to put my argument on paper, and this resulted in an essay titled “Yes, …but…”: The Neo-Perennialists.” The abstrac...
Thomas Aquinas, much like Aristotle, composed that nature is sorted out for good purposes. Not at all like Aristotle, then again, Aquinas happened to say that God made nature and standards the world by "perfect reason." Aquinas portrayed four sorts of law. Endless law was God 's ideal arr...
he maintains the ontological principle as one of the key features of metaphysics, that is, as Whitehead puts it, “no actual entity, then no reason.”21Creativity seems to violate this principle because Whitehead uses it in an explanatory way.Garland’s convincing argument is that, although cre...
The aim of this paper is the question of the ontological simplicity of creation as well as the related question of its comprehensibility. In order to deal with these issues the author adopts Aquinas's theory of creation as presented in his Summa contra gentiles. He discusses the essential aspec...
According to Thomas Aquinas, metaphysics is justly considered to be the first philosophy: on the one hand it is occupied with what comes first in the ontological order – the first causes of being, on the other hand, other sciences rely on it for their first principles. The article ...
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...