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	Jacques Maritain Center: CE - Thomism
		The giving of the chalice with wine and of the paten with bread Thomists generally held to be an essential part of ordination to the priesthood.
		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)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Thomism
		Thomistic theologians generally, whilst they defended the infallibility of the Roman pontiff, denied that the pope had the power to dissolve a matrimonium ratum or to dispense from a solemn vow made to God.
		The Thomistic School is distinguished from other schools of theology chiefly by its doctrines on the difficult questions relating to God's action on the free will of man, God's foreknowledge, grace, and predestination.
		Thomists do not claim to be able to explain, except by a general reference to God's omnipotence, how man remains free under the action of God, which they consider necessary in order to preserve and explain the universality of God's causality and the independent certainty of His foreknowledge.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14698b.htm (4861 words)

	Annotated bibliography of John Deely 1965-1993
		John Deely is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies of the University of St. Thomas, Houston.
		It is intended both as a reference work in the history of philosophy and a guide to future research - a "handbook for inquirers" in history, philosophy, and the humanities generally, including historians and philosophers of science.
		It draws a clear distinction between the approach of classical philosophy and that of modern science to the problem of species, coupled with a comparative assessment of the methods of classical vs. modern philosophy in dealing with the question of specific differences in nature.
	www.formalontology.it /john_deely.htm (4337 words)

	CHAPTER XIV
		Issues of this kind which occur within the framework of Christian philosophy are fundamental in the sense that, similar to other branches of cognition, their concrete solutions indicate further developments of that philosophy and at undergird its various versions.
		But if the structure of philosophy is to correspond to the requirements of the concept of a rational science, points of belief cannot be included among the system of theses of philosophy, as this would result in mixing knowledge with faith, and the natural order with the supernatural one.
		Pure philosophy can be considered Christian when, in developing its own contents with full freedom, it states that it does need to reject any ability or "supernatural power." There the term "openness to the supernatural" can be interpreted in the sense of an attitude of the cognitive subject in the course of constructing philosophy.
	www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-1/chapter_xiv.htm (5860 words)

	Nichol's Introduction to Theology and Philosophy: Chapter 3 - General Principles. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Philosophy is the attempt to say who we are and what kind of a world we live in, drawing on the resources of human experience as clarified by reflection.
		Thomist philosophy can thus build up a picture of the divine nature by describing the perfections - goodness, unity, beauty, and so on - which belong ultimately and supremely to God but which are also found in various limited ways in this world.
		In the past, philosophy has been conducted in quite different environments: in informal schools that met in corners on the Athenian market-place, or in monasteries under the auspices and intellectual authority of the Church, or as an aspect of salon-life in the eighteenth century cities.
	www.christendom-awake.org /pages/anichols/shape/shapechap3.html (5408 words)

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		Without specifically dealing with the relation between theology and philosophy, that would acknowledge that there is a fundamental issue about their relationship, Strauss chose to select for the more important issue, at least for his time (1964), the relation of political philosophy to the social sciences.
		Philosophy itself was the consideration of the whole, a whole that included the classics and even needed to consider the civilizations that do not claim to belong to the universal civilization.
		In terms of political philosophy, therefore, this settling of the problem of that in which human happiness exists, in an invitation to the divine life, allows politics to be, almost for the first time in human history, merely itself.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/schallj/WS11BJVS.html (19519 words)

	CUA School of Philosophy
		Studies in Philosophy and History of Philosophy 15, Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1986.
		Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, 29.
		Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, 30.
	philosophy.cua.edu /Faculty/wallacepubl.cfm (2303 words)

	1998 Jan A Long (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Philosophy differs, however, from most other university subjects in that one must not be, in fact in most cases is not, an exponent of the subject one informs others about.
		Philosophy is not to be the task and the responsibility of the Catholic philosopher, but to be alienated to a glorious past, relics of which shall reverently be approached in the Great Temple of Historicity.
		An instructor of philosophy who conveys nothing of this habitus--like a violin teacher who knows the history of the violin but does not listen to the music nor know how to play--may be master of passive periphrastic constructions or textual evolutions, but certainly not of philosophy.
	www.thomist.org /journal/1998/981along.htm (11024 words)

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		The Thomist attempt to transcend this monadic logic by means of the analogy of being had failed by the end of the thirteenth century; thereafter, the confident Catholic rationality which Thomas above all exemplifies began to founder, and with it failed the theological optimism of this, "the greatest of centuries".
		This Thomist synthesis of metaphysics and theology reflects the Aristotelian notion of the necessary and monadic unity of finite being, not the Christian revelation of the free and covenantal event of a creation in Christ who is sent by the Father to give the Spiritus Creator.
		On this radical incoherence Thomist theologians are still fixed; it has removed them from the possibility of serious theological speculation which is their sole justification, for they are engaged in a most fundamental contradiction at the level of method and it poisons all they do; not least, it forces the trivialization of the Fall.
	www.ewtn.com /library/DOCTRINE/FR88303.TXT (10482 words)

	Philosophy and culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		That is simply to say that though philosophy may have as an unstated or stated end the intention of shaping a timeless explanation of the human condition, yet it does that always and ineluctably in a way which locks it into geographical place and time.
		For our purposes philosophy may be defined in the very general way of the Oxford English Dictionary as "the love, study, or pursuit of wisdom, and of the knowledge of things and their causes" or, more precisely, as the study of Being, of ultimate reality.
		Philosophy taught through to the middle of the nineteenth century in Québec was fairly eclectic, but controlled in the sense that it was seen in a political light.
	www.ola.bc.ca /online/cf/module-2/phil.html (14099 words)

	Faith and Reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Philosophy departments in Canadian universities--at least in central Canada and in the Maritime Provinces have usually been larger than those in American universities of comparable size and a good part of the reason is that Protestant institutions sought to defend their positions against a well organized Catholic tradition of which they stood in genuine fear.
		To hold that those doctrines were part of Canadian philosophy would be dubious, to explain them without writing a book about Thomist philosophy would be impossible, and to claim they were influential on other Canadian philosophers would be to claim for Maritain what it is difficult to claim for anyone.
		Knowledge on the Thomist scheme turned out to be expressible chiefly in the form of standard Aristotelean definitions: "Man is a rational animal" is a traditional form which states the sort of thing man is--an animal--and then states what distinguishes him from the others, his rationality.
	www.ola.bc.ca /online/cf/documents/CWfait.html (12334 words)

	PHILOSOPHY PATHWAYS Issue 29
		In Thomist Philosophy God is fixed, motionless as a condition of his unending existence.
		The job of Philosophy, Science and Logic is to enable us to distinguish the useful truth from deliberate falsity, ignorance or distortion.
		THIS SEASON'S SILLY IDEA: A PHILOSOPHY T-SHIRT When Spring in the air, philosophers gaze longingly out of their study windows and imagine what it would be to do the kinds of things that normal people do - like lazing in the sun, or going out on a picnic, or enjoying a romantic interlude.
	www.shef.ac.uk /~ptpdlp/newsletter/issue29.html (2916 words)

	GUIDEBOOK FOR PUBLISHING PHILOSOPHY: JOURNALS
		It undertakes particularly to support sustained discussion of central issues in the various sub-fields of philosophy and systematic theology, especially though not exclusively where such discussion can be advanced by creative uses of the thought of Aquinas and significant authors in the Thomist tradition.
		History of philosophy, historical theology and textual studies, as they bear on enduring speculative questions or as they illumine the intelle ctual setting of Thomistic thought, also come within the scope of the journal.
		Editorial statement: Topoi is a review devoted to philosophical studies and to the history of philosophy, dedicated to illustrating the most important topics that have emerged from these disciplines in recent years, to indicate the growth of discussions upon these topics and to point out the principal tendencies that have developed in such discussions.
	sophia.smith.edu /~jmoulton/guidebook/jend3.htm (4842 words)

	Philosophy Department - Lisska
		It was Bob Turnbull who forced me to re-think the scholastic philosophy from my earlier academic work with the insights and rigor of contemporary analytic philosophy.
		I have also read philosophy papers, over forty in all, at all three divisional meetings of the American Philosophical Association, several regional Philosophy associations, and Institutes for Medieval Philosophy, among others.
		Two chapters, one on Aquinas and natural law and the other on late medieval philosophy of law, are forthcoming in an international series on jurisprudence.
	www.denison.edu /philosophy/lisska.html (770 words)

	Notre Dame Archives: Philosophy Faculty Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, 1931-1972.
		Associate professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame from 1948 to 1977.
		Vice-president and director of studies at the University of Notre Dame, 1875-1877; director of studies and professor of philosophy at Sacred Heart College in Watertown, Wisconsin, 1877-1879; professor of philosophy and literary criticism at the University of Notre Dame, 1879-1894.
	lysy2.archives.nd.edu /philos.htm (836 words)

	The end of the Myth of Galileo Galilei supported by the progressivists by Atila S. Guimaraes@ TraditionInAction.org
		These arguments are sophistic, taking advantage of the confused boundaries among science, philosophy, and theology that existed at the beginning of the 17th century.
		Galileo extrapolated scientific data and made conclusions in the fields of philosophy and theology, allegedly supposing both to be in the realm of science.
		It was justly defending the Catholic Theology and Philosophy attacked by Galileo Galilei.
	www.traditioninaction.org /History/A_003_Galileo.html (3460 words)

	Island of Freedom - St. Thomas Aquinas
		In 1256 Aquinas was awarded a doctorate in theology and appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Paris.
		Theoretical philosophy isolates what is constant in changing facts, and is divided into 1) natural philosophy, the study of objects of material processes, 2) mathematical philosophy, the study of quantity without need to appeal to the sensible world, and 3) metaphysical philosophy, the study of the non-material.
		Interest in Thomist philosophy began to revive, however, toward the end of the 19th century.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /AQUINAS.HTM (1609 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. The Elements of Philosophy: A Compendium for Philosophers and Theologians.
		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)

	:: Christendom College :: Core Curriculum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In conjunction with this, courses in Thomist philosophy of human nature and metaphysics assist the student in using reason to understand the nature of reality and to illumine further the truths of revelation.
		Therefore, Christendom College requires an introduction to the fundamental questions and methods of philosophy, the study of logic and mathematics and scientific thought, and training in the arts of discourse, and four semesters of a foreign language, usually taken in the first two years.
		The curriculum of the junior and senior years combines a six-hour requirement in philosophy, a six-hour requirement in theology, and a three-hour requirement in literature with extensive studies in a major of the student’s choice, and electives.
	www.christendom.edu /academics/core.shtml (917 words)

	Syllabi 2004-2005 B-KUL-W0EC4A Medieval Philosophy: Thomas Aquinas (Texts): Seminar
		The aim of the seminar is to facilitate the student’s ability to discuss and debate different topics which are related to Aquinas, Thomist philosophy, and/or the Scholastic tradition, and to read closely the basic texts which are germane.
		The seminar has the special purpose of familiarising students with the particular values and methods of medieval philosophy.
		Every year, a different text or texts, suitable for bachelor students and of key importance to the understanding of Thomas, Thomism, and/or the Scholastic episode of philosophy, will be read and discussed, with the students taking responsibility for presentations and participation, guided by the tutor.
	www.kuleuven.ac.be /onderwijs/aanbod2004/syllabi/W0EC4AE.htm (226 words)

	Maritain, Jacques -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Roman Catholic philosopher, respected both for his interpretation of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and for his own Thomist philosophy.
		Reared a Protestant, Maritain attended the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was attracted by teachers who claimed that the natural sciences alone could resolve human questions about life and death.
		Overview of this organization founded in 1979 to study the major authors and themes in philosophy, particularly those found in the work of Jacques Maritain.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9050983 (682 words)

	Aquinas
		Chenu, M. Dominique, The Scope of the Summa, Washington: The Thomist Press, 1958.
		Fortin, Ernest L., "St. Thomas Aquinas," History of Political Philosophy, Edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, Chicago: Rand-McNally, 2d and 3d Editions.
		Pegis, Anton, The Middle Ages and Philosophy, Chicago: Regnery, 1963.
	www.morec.com /schall/aquinas.htm (1128 words)

	Continental Philosophy
		The Philosophy of Vladimir Jankélévitch by Arnold I. Davidson (an excerpt)
		The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities by Debra B. Bergoffen (1996, SUNY)
		Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault by Hadot (1995, Blackwell)
	www3.baylor.edu /~Scott_Moore/Continental.html (7438 words)

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