Have a listen to this long, but worthwhile discussion.
This week’s lecture was chosen because, In my view, Kant and St. Thomas are both giants representing and synthesizing their respective traditions. Kant synthesizes the moderns: Descartes (idealist) and Hume (empiricist). This is in contrast with Aquinas, who in many
I’m currently reading Yves Simon’s Foresight and Knowledge (Prévoir et savoir), a work written in 1944 on philosophy of science. The first chapter makes up a third of the book. There he considers what chance is (and is not), gives
If you’re in Houston next weekend, University of St. Thomas is hosting the famous Edward Feser. Come if you can. If you cannot, a video recording may be posted below days after the event.
In Latin (For precision and clarity) In English LogicaLogica 1.1 Impossibile est idem secundem idem simul esse et non esse (principle of non‑contradiction). 1.2 Omnis comparatio claudicat nisi in puncto comparationis. 1.3 Contra factum non fit argumentum. 1.4 Qui nimis probat nihil probat. 1.5 Cum negante principia nequit
“Anything that is in potency with respect to an object, and able to receive it into itself, is, as such, without that object; thus the pupil of the eye, being potential to colors and able to receive them, is itself colorless. … Since
There have been so many good philosophy-related memes around out there recently that I decided to compile 10 of my favorite.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.Which is your favorite? Leave a comment below.
This past semester I participated in the annual AMA meeting which was held in Philadelphia, PA.
The theme of the conference was “Thomism and Science.” In my paper, I explained why Thomas supports Aristotle claim that only one substantial form
What you see in the photo above and below is the Pantheon, originally the church of St. Genevieve, the patroness of Paris. In the French Revolution, it was gutted and made into a temple of Reason, that is, a symbol of
“Virtue, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral.. for it was not by often seeing or often hearing that we got these senses, but on the contrary we had them before we used them, and did not