tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post5417047537020711353..comments2024-03-11T04:11:06.487-04:00Comments on The Smithy: UpdateLee Faberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00476833516234522602noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-74307907447016049732009-12-05T15:27:34.429-05:002009-12-05T15:27:34.429-05:00Eric: that's what i get for making wild claims...Eric: that's what i get for making wild claims.<br />Dr. Feser: awesome!Lee Faberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00476833516234522602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-20912229362072628132009-12-04T20:14:51.536-05:002009-12-04T20:14:51.536-05:00Lee, we can simplify this considerably. It all bo...Lee, we can simplify this considerably. It all boils down to:<br /><br />Aristotelico-Feserism<br /><br />vs.<br /><br />Aristotelico-Faberism<br /><br />That way we can settle this mano-a-mano. Er, I mean, Aristotelico-mano-a-Aristotelico-mano...<br /><br />;-)<br /><br />EdEdward Feserhttp://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-16994115378593172312009-12-04T19:39:57.821-05:002009-12-04T19:39:57.821-05:00I suppose we could go so far as to say Ockham wrot...I suppose we could go so far as to say Ockham wrote fourteen commentaries, if we were willing to call the <i>Summa Logicae</i> a set of commentaries on the six books of the Organon, but that seems like stretching the sense of "commentary" too far.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15177742566251873537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2472139466585018053.post-7134022876720259702009-12-04T19:36:11.593-05:002009-12-04T19:36:11.593-05:00"hey, [Ockham] wrote as many commentaries on ..."hey, [Ockham] wrote as many commentaries on Aristotle as did Aquinas!"<br /><br />As much as I like defenses of Ockham, I don't think you're right here.<br /><br />Aquinas wrote commentaries on:<br />- De anima<br />- Physics<br />- De generatione<br />- Metaphysics<br />- Politics<br />- Ethics <br />- De caelo et mundo<br />- De sensu et sensato<br />- Meteora<br />- De memoria<br />- De interpretatione<br />- Posterior Analytics<br /><br />That's twelve works, if I got them all. Ockham only wrote six Aristotelian commentaries: three on parts of the Organon (Categories, De interpretatione, and Elenchorum) and three commentaries (one short, one long, and one question-commentary) on the Physics.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15177742566251873537noreply@blogger.com