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 […]...
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 understand the meaning or nature […]...
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 of intellectual act, in the […]...
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 avers that “whatever is received […]...
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 it is possible to move […]...
Being and Good as Primary Notions in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In the order which one finds in Lonergan’s intentionality analysis, moral deliberation succeeds acts of reflective understanding which have concluded that certain things […]...
Speaking about God’s Nature in Aquinas and Lonergan: A Question about Different Starting Points
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 by using the infinity or […]...
Judgment in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB When Lonergan speaks about judgment in terms of affirmation and negation (one affirms, for instance, that something is so or one affirms that something is […]...
Understanding Two Kinds of Emanation within God Through a Transposition of Meaning
1 by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB For an initial understanding about what is meant by a “transposition of meaning,” as Matthew Lamb argues in “Lonergan’s Transpositions of Augustine and Aquinas: […]...