Questions tagged [medieval]
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Duns Scotus : how can the " concept of being" be univocal without there being a nature common to God and to creatures?
Source : Paul Vincent Spade, Survey Of Medieval Philoosphy (https://pvspade.com/Logic/index.html)
Dunst Scotus is said to hold the thesis of univocity of being: i.e. the thesis according to which the concept of being is attributed in the same sense…
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How much medieval philosophy do I need to know to understand modern philosophy?
I have read Plato's dialogues, Aristotles's "Nicomachean Ethics" and also Peter Adamson's two books about classical and hellenistic philosophies. Do I need to read primary texts of medieval philosophy or can I continue with Descartes?
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Where does Aquinas get his "logical-metaphysical presuppositions"?
In the Summa, Aquinas frequently invokes (for lack of a better term) certain "logical-metaphysical presuppositions." Here are two examples drawn from I-II, qq. 90-91:
"that which is the principle in any genus, is the rule and measure of that…
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Did the medievals have a philosophy of childhood?
St. Augustine is last philosopher I know who treats childhood as interesting in the particular until Thomas Aquinas,* and after that it's basically straight on until Locke's theories of development and education. But this seems unlikely to me given…
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For St. Thomas Aquinas, is speaking what is true with the intent to deceive a immoral?
For Saint Thomas Aquinas, the essence of lying (lying is always immoral for him) has nothing to do with the intention to deceive (Summa Theologica II-II q. 110 a. 1 co.):
Accordingly if these three things concur, namely, falsehood of what is said,…
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Why is natural law ethics based on what happens in most cases? (St. Thomas Aquinas)
Summa Theologica II-II q. 154 a. 2:
Nor does it matter if a man having knowledge of a woman by
fornication, make sufficient provision for the upbringing of the
child: because a matter that comes under the determination of the law
is judged…
Guilherme de Souza
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How can our country be our "principle of being"? (St. Thomas Aquinas)
Summa Theologica II-II q. 101 a. 1:
In the second place, the principles of our being and government (nostri esse et gubernationis principium) are our parents and our country (patria), that have given us birth and nourishment.
But I don't…
Guilherme de Souza
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St. Thomas Aquinas on the purposes of punishment
"The punishments of the present life are not sought for their own sake, because this is not the time of final retribution; but they are sought insofar as they are medicinal, aiding either the correction of the sinning person, or the good of the…
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Why cannot man be his own judge (St. Thomas Aquinas)?
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II-II q. 64 a. 5 ad 2:
One who exercises public authority may lawfully put to death an evil-doer, since he can pass judgment on him. But no man is judge of himself. Wherefore it is not lawful for one who…
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Can someone explain the terms "virtual cause" and "eminent cause"?
I would highly appreciate it if you could explain the two terms virtual and eminent. Please also refer me to a book or an article where this issue has been discussed, preferably extensively.
This question has been answered before, but I am still not…
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In what sense is the polis/city self-sufficient for St. Thomas Aquinas?
De Regno cap. 2 n. 14:
Now since man must live in a group, because he is not sufficient unto himself to procure the necessities of life were he to remain solitary, it follows that a society will be the more perfect the more it is sufficient unto…
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What is the bridge between Agrippa's and Descartes' mindsets? What to read to understand the radical change
After Reading a couple of works by Descartes (XVI century), I am now reading "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" by Cornelius Agrippa (around 1530). The difference in mindset and worldview is enormous. It seems that in around one hundred years,…
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The Byzantine intellectual tradition....an underreported History?
There are of course volumes and volumes of questions on Ancient Greek Philosophy and Philosophers; this is to be expected since Ancient Greece was and is still largely viewed as the Fountainhead of Western Philosophical Thought-(and perhaps of…
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