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Aquinas’s Distinction between Natural Being and Intentional Being

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  • December 11, 2009
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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 […]

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Matter as a Cause of Knowing in Aquinas and Lonergan

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  • December 1, 2009
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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 […]

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Form as a Cause of Knowing in Aquinas and Lonergan

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  • November 23, 2009
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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, […]

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Essence in Aquinas and Lonergan

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  • November 10, 2009
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 by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB   Given a certain indebtedness that one finds in both Aquinas and Lonergan toward Aristotle, one best attends to developments […]

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Understanding the Proceeding of an Intellectual Emanation in its Uniqueness

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  • October 30, 2009
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 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 […]

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Understanding the Proceeding of an Intellectual Emanation in its Uniqueness Employing a Thomist Distinction

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  • October 23, 2009
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 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 […]

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Applying a Thomist Principle: Quidquid recipitur ad modum recipientis recipitur

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  • October 16, 2009
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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 […]

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From Human and Angelic Understanding to Divine Understanding in Lonergan and Aquinas

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  • October 8, 2009
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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 […]

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Being and Good as Primary Notions in Aquinas and Lonergan

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  • October 2, 2009
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB     In the order which one finds in Lonergan’s intentionality analysis, moral deliberation succeeds acts of reflective understanding which […]

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Speaking about God’s Nature in Aquinas and Lonergan: A Question about Different Starting Points

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  • September 23, 2009
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by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB   In his The Triune God: Systematics, pp. 193-199, in a seeming contrast with Aquinas, Lonergan speaks about God’s attributes […]

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