Please know, dear friends, that our friend and fellow reader and student, Paul Sweeney, age 63, has died, last Sunday evening at about 7:30 at […]
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Judgment in Aristotle, two natures
As a qualification on how we are to understand judgment in Aristotle, please note that, in the kind of analysis which we find in Aristotle […]
Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, 1a, q. 84, Notes
Notes on Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1a, q. 84 ST 1.84: How does the human intellect know bodies (which are beneath it) ST 1.84.1 Does the […]
Greek Discovery of Mind, Socrates, notes
Socrates The intrusion of the systematic exigence into the realm of common sense is beautifully illustrated by Plato’s early dialogues. Socrates would ask for the […]
Higher Viewpoints: Part Two From Algebra to Calculus: The Emergence of the Power Rule
[This is a reprint of a 1997 posting] Higher Viewpoints: Part Two From Algebra to Calculus:The Emergence of the Power Rule A Thought Experiment […]
Part 8: Love in Finality, Love, and Marriage
by David Fleischacker Further, love is the act of a subject (principium quod), and as such it is the principle of union between different subjects. […]
Square root of two as an irrational number
Square root of two as an irrational number by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB edited by Mr. Michael Hernandez MA When Lonergan discusses inverse insight in […]
Higher Viewpoints: Part One, from arithmetic to algebra, the transition
This is a repost of a 1997 essay written for a seminar on Insight. Higher Viewpoints: Part One From Arithmetic to Algebra: the transition by […]
Part 7: Finality, Final Cause, and the Good in “Finality, Love, and Marriage”
by David Fleischacker “For the final cause is the cuius gratia, and its specific or formal constituent is the good as cause.” (Finality, Love, Marriage, […]