Tag: aquinas
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A History of the Divine Ideas as Thoughts of God
The Ideas as Thoughts of God The divine ideas have a notorious history in philosophy. They are commonly spoken of as the ‘thoughts of God,’ and utilized in arguments for God’s existence, e.g., Edward Feser’s ‘Augustinian Argument.’ Their history is pretty nuanced, and provides an interesting area for investigation. Prior to the Platonic Successors we…
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Maximus the Confessor on the Transfiguration
For those who aren’t familiar, the transfiguration (Matthew 17.1-13, Mark 9.2-13, and Luke 9.28-36) is an event recorded in the gospels where Christ, Peter, James, and John go up onto a mountain and Christ is “transfigured.” The event is clearly meant to indicate the divine approval of Christ’s mission on earth. But there seems to be…
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Why Read the Church Fathers?
“Fun” What is the appeal behind spending thirty or more dollars to buy an old book, opening it up to find the language verbose, dense, and placid? And then to sink hours and hours into the text with little to nothing to show for it? Well, when put like that, reading sounds more like torture…
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Some Thoughts on Wine
Roger Scruton was a controversial figure. Despite being a British philosopher who specialized in Kant and aesthetics, he was famous for his founding of the right-wing political magazine The Salisbury Review, along with his now infamous book Thinkers of the New Left (republished as Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands) where he critiques Lacan, Badiou, Zizek, and…
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A Critique of the Cartesian Cogito
I argue that the Cogito presupposes fundamental principles of reason, and that is it vulnerable to skeptical remarks.
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A Stick Pushes a Rock, Therefore….. God?
Here I look at the 1st Way of Thomas Aquinas – an interesting and powerful argument for the existence of the God of Classical Theism.
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Is Change Real, or is Change All There Is?
(Written Nov. 2020) To give you the short answer, contrary to Parmenides, change is real, and contrary to Heraclitus, change is not all there is. But let’s take a look why they were wrong… As you may know, Parmenides denied that there was any change in the world. His argument is fairly simple. Change is…
The Reluctant Philosopher 