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 Summary Voegelin’s important […]...
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 conditions, one can verify the […]...
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 of Israel Summary The emergence […]...
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 Summary Voegelin begins his study […]...
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 prevented a “leap in being” […]...
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 first kind refers to something […]...
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 coordinates or material properties are […]...
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 to say, the soul alone […]...
Form as a Cause of Knowing in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB When commenting on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Aquinas repeats what Aristotle says that form (forma) is ratio. Cf. Sententia super Metaphysicam, 8, 1, 1687. Form is an […]...
Essence in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Given a certain indebtedness that one finds in both Aquinas and Lonergan toward Aristotle, one best attends to developments in meaning as regards essence […]...