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Category: Dunstan Robidoux, OSB
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Understanding the Proceeding of an Intellectual Emanation in its Uniqueness
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB If intellectual emanation cannot be properly understood in terms of cause and effect, it follows that, if one is to […]
Understanding the Proceeding of an Intellectual Emanation in its Uniqueness Employing a Thomist Distinction
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In attempting to understand the nature of an intellectual emanation as one kind of intellectual act comes from another kind […]
Applying a Thomist Principle: Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Not infrequently, in different texts, Aquinas refers to a principle which he uses as a principle of explanation–a principle which […]
From Human and Angelic Understanding to Divine Understanding in Lonergan and Aquinas
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In the kind of analysis which one finds in Lonergan’s The Triune God: Systematics, much is said about how […]