Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Thomists


Related Topics

In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Saint Thomas Aquinas
This has led some to suggest that what is called Thomistic philosophy is an eclectic hodgepodge, not a set of coherent disciplines.
Still others argue that that there is a radically original Thomistic philosophy which cannot be characterized by anything it shares with earlier thinkers, particularly Aristotle.
New journals and learned societies were founded, curricula were reshaped to benefit from the thought of Thomas and this not simply in seminaries and pontifical universities but throughout the world in colleges and universities.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/aquinas   (11428 words)

  
 The Ancients  and the Scholastics
The Thomists took a practical stance: they argued that private property was a "conventional" human arrangement with no moral implications, and furthermore, it had the nice side-effect of stimulating economic activity and thus general welfare.
The Thomists cautioned that this did not mean they blankly endorsed all private enterprise: the "love of lucre", they noted, was a serious sin.
The Thomists allowed two loopholes in their argument: interest is admissible if the lender of money bears risk (dammum emergens) or if, by lending, he is foregoing an alternative, profitable opportunity (lucrum cessans).
cepa.newschool.edu /het/schools/ancients.htm   (2438 words)

  
 Jacques Maritain Center: CE - Thomism
The University of Louvain, which had been largely Thomistic, was compelled to close its doors, and other important institutions of learning were either closed or seriously hampered in their work.
Thomists of to-day are of a different mind, owing to the practice of the Church.
By the publication of the "Revue thomiste" the professors of that university have contributed greatly to a new knowledge and appreciation of St. Thomas.
www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/thomism.htm   (4926 words)

  
 Peanuts and Thomists | By Raymond Dennehy | June 2, 2005
Whether or not Schultz was a Thomist, those traits make his characters and plots a perfect setting for expressing the very principles and ideas that Thomism takes as the starting point of philosophy.
G.K. Chesterton noted that the glory of Thomistic philosophy is its grounding in the real world, unlike modern philosophy which, in his words, has turned the world upside down and then tells the common people that that’s reality.
Thomists are an endangered species and our existence is all the more precarious for its lack of defenders.
www.ignatiusinsight.com /features2005/dennehy_thomists_june05.asp   (1690 words)

  
 FIDES ET RATIO AND THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THOMISTIC REVIVAL - by John F. X. Knasas - Catholic Dossier - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
They proposed a more fundamental description of being in terms of existential act.4 The Existential Thomists use what they regard as Aquinas’ philosophically novel doctrine of esse, or actus essendi.5 The “existence of a thing” does not mean simply the fact of the thing, though ordinary conversation does leave it at that.
A refrain among Transcendental Thomists is: “You can know the finite only if you know the infinite; you can know the limited only if you know the unlimited.”7 Both the finite and the limited appear only in juxtaposition to the infinite and unlimited.
Hence, of the various Thomistic camps in the 20th century Thomistic revival, the Pope’s clear preference is for the Existential Thomist camp.
www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Dossier/2000-12/article3.html   (3647 words)

  
 John Knasas on Thomistic Metaphysics Past, Present and Future
During my seventeen years in the Center for Thomistic Studies I have untiringly worked, in some dispiriting circumstances, to deepen, enrich, and to defend critically that Thomistic tradition, especially in regard to the conducting of metaphysics.
A refrain among Transcendental Thomists is: "You can know the finite only if you know the infinite; you can know the limited only if you know the unlimited." Both the finite and the limited appear only in juxtaposition to the infinite and unlimited.
Transcendental Thomists validate the dynamism by noting that it is an ineluctable context.
www.innerexplorations.com /philtext/john.htm   (4234 words)

  
 Thomists play at opening of ECMA's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Thomists played at the opening ceremonies of the ECMA’s held at South Market Billiards in Saint John at noon on Thursday, January 31.
The Thomists are a 20 member Big Band style dance orchestra founded in 1965 by former professor Harry Rigby.
She appeared to be enjoying herself,” McLean joined the Thomists in the fall of 2000.
www.stthomasu.ca /publications/transitions/feb2002/thomists.htm   (271 words)

  
 Santo Tomás de Aquino: Links 3 - Thomists & Thomism
Jacques Maritain and a Thomist View of Evolution from The Mystery of Matter by James Arraj.
Science, Philosophy, and Theology in the Thomistic Tradition by William A.
Thomistic e-nsitute: An Electronic Institute for Thomistic Studies and Research.
www.stthaquinas.8m.com /links3.htm   (3021 words)

  
 Robert Bellarmine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
His systematic study of (The rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth) theology began at (A city in Veneto) Padua in 1567 and 1568, where
his teachers were Thomists, the Jesuits not yet having had time to develop a theology of their own.
He was ordained priest at (Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry) Ghent on (Sunday before Easter) Palm Sunday, 1570, by the elder (Click link for more info and facts about Jansenius) Jansenius.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/robert_bellarmine.htm   (1390 words)

  
 Philosophy of Nature
A Dissertation Submitted to the Pontifical Faculty of Philosophy of the Studium Generale of St. Thomas Aquinas in Partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy," Ph.D. Thesis, River Forest, Illinois.
Wallace, William A. "Is Nature Accessible to the Mathematical Physicist?," Paper read at Thomistic Institute, July 25, 1998, at University of Notre Dame.
Weisheipl, James A. (1982) "The Interpretation of Aristotle's Physics and the Science of Motion," in Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny, Jan Pinborg and Eleonore Stump (eds.) The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism 1100-1600, 521-536, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
www.morec.com /natural.htm   (3748 words)

  
 Finding common ground between Thomists and non-Thomists in Catholic philosophy
This is why I would say that if I engage Thomas respectfully but truly philosophically, then, however often I may disagree with him, I am more of a Thomistic philosopher than the one who holds fast to every Thomistic opinion but does not know how to hold it in a properly philosophical way.
We see that there is as much a place in the intellectual realm of the Church for Newman and Blondel and von Balthasar as for Garrigou-Lagrange and Maritain and Gilson, and that it would in fact be a great loss for the Church if she had only the latter.
It is certainly a good thing that some universities have centers of Thomistic thought, but in the age of legitimate pluralism this is by no means the only Catholic way to do philosophy.
www.theuniversityconcourse.com /I,7,5-7-1996/Crosby.htm   (1906 words)

  
 Alibris: Thomists
In this powerfully argued book, John Knasas engages a debate at the heart of the revival of Thomistic thought in the twentieth century.
Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace is a comprehensive survey of the Thomists' contributions to contemporary political thought as well as a detailed analysis of their approach to democracy.
Through an in-depth study of four key figures - Pierre Rousselot, Joseph Marechal, Jacques Maritain, and Etienne Gilson - From Unity to Pluralism traces the evolution of Thomism in the first half of the twentieth century.
www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Thomists   (605 words)

  
 The Aggiornamento of the Roman Catholic Church From Patristic Times To Present
The late XVI and early XVII centuries saw the Jesuit Molinists and the Thomist Dominicans at loggerheads over grace and predestination; Rome prepared a condemnation of Molinism after the Congregatio de Auxiliis but it was never issued, instead Rome silenced all controversy over grace and Jansenius’ Augustinus was originally condemned for violating the silence.
The Dominican Thomists also continued to maintain an Augustinian doctrine of predestination with the approval of Rome.
Garrigou-Lagrange is considered to have been the most important Thomist theologian and philosopher of the XX century.
www.romancatholicism.org   (3728 words)

  
 The Peeping Thomists
Other interests include movies, books, Japanese language and culture, animation, video games, and the music therefrom, and other things he can't remember at the moment.
More about The Peeping Thomists: Who we are, whence we come, and whither we go.
What a pity if philosophers, who are expected to be the chief seekers and lovers of the truth and to see as much of it as can be seen by man, should decide after all that truth cannot be discovered.
peepingthomists.blogspot.com   (3819 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas: A Handbook for Peeping Thomists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
It isn't a large, indepth study, but a great first step for neophyte thomists.
Top of Page : A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas: A Handbook for Peeping Thomists
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0268009759   (273 words)

  
 Best Book Buys - Thomists Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Books > Browse > Subject Category > Philosophy > Religious > Thomists
Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn: Toward a More Perfect Form of Existence
The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics
www.bestwebbuys.com /Philosophy-Religious-N_10028434-books.html   (148 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.