Click here to download this as a PDF document. Necessity of a New Kind of Thinking? R. Krismer, r.krismer@aon.at Translation with the help of the […]
Author: Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB
Identity in Human Cognition
It is no easy task to try to understand the principle of identity in human cognition. In order to do so, I would like to […]
Eric Voegelin, Order and History, Volume One: Israel and Revelation – Part IV – chap. 11 – The Deuteronomic Torah
08/21/2010 – Joanne Tetlow on Eric Voegelin, Order and History, Volume One: Israel and Revelation – Part IV – chap. 11 – The Deuteronomic Torah […]
Moving through Conceptuality with Acts of Understanding: Augustine, Aquinas, Lonergan
To understand a bit better what could be meant by saying that acts of understanding, by their very nature, always transcend material variables and […]
Summary – Part 2, Ch. 4-6
03/13/10 – Joanne Tetlow – Voegelin – Order and History, Volume One: Israel and Revelation – Part II – chaps. 4-6 – The Historical Order […]
Summary – Part 1, Ch. 1-3
02/27/10 – Joanne Tetlow Voegelin – Order and History, Volume One: Israel and Revelation Part I – chaps. 1-3 – Mesopotamia, Achaemenian Empire, and Egypt […]
Part III – Chap. 7 – From Clan Society to Kingship
Summary by Joanne Tetlow Ambiguity exists in the symbols of Israelite history. According to Voegelin, the compactness of the cosmological myth holding together Israel’s community […]
Lonergan’s Notions of Consciousness Derived from St. Augustine’s Notions of Presence
In the De Trinitate, 10, 3, 12, St. Augustine distinguishes between two kinds of presence (which have been interpreted as two kinds of object). A […]
Aquinas’s Distinction between Natural Being and Intentional Being
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In Aristotle, De Anima, 3, 4, 430a 3-4, one finds a discussion which argues that in human cognition, if material […]
Matter as a Cause of Knowing in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In conformity with Aristotle’s understanding of human cognition, Aquinas argues, with respect to human cognition, that “it is as ridiculous […]