Wednesday, July 30, 2008

John de Bassolis contra Henry of Ghent

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Here's a quote from Ioannes de Bassolis, one of the students of Scotus at Paris. No manuscripts of his writings survive, though his Sent...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

Angels on Pinheads

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Although it does not seem that the scholastics ever actually asked how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, still it must be admitt...
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Heroism

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This has nothing whatsoever to do with the matter of this blog, coming merely from my extra-curricular reading, but it's so badass I hav...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Bonaventure the Feminist

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From In Sententiarum Lib. IV Dist. VII Art. III. Quaest. I: Et primo, quod debeant excludi [usui sacramenti Confirmationis] mulieres, quia ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Plantinga's "Does God Have a Nature?"

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Well, dear readers, I just finished reading the book in the title line. I read it as part of my preliminary dissertation research as it deal...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Philosophy at Night

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I've always resented my body's need for sleep. What a waste of precious hours when all is quiet and still! What hath night to do wit...
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Friday, July 11, 2008

Word of the Day

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Today's Word of the Day is..."nihilitates", (assuming I resolved the abbreviation properly) a gem of a term used, if not coine...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Shakespeare the Thomist

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Or at least the "intellectualist". From A Midsummer-Night's Dream , Act II scene ii: Content with Hermia! No: I do repent The ...

Scotistic Abstractions

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Here's a quote I've been meaning to post for a while, on different kinds of abstractions. The most interesting bit here is probably ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Members of P.A.A.L. Take Note

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Vergil's second Eclogue is the lament of a shepherd who has a crush on another shepherd: Formosum pastor Corydon ardebat Alexin, and so ...
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Monday, July 7, 2008

Odd bits and pieces

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An anglo-saxon hagiographer weighs in on some philosophical controversies, miraculously decided: Iterum ipsa mater quadam die stans in aeccl...
Friday, July 4, 2008

H.A. Wolfson on the History of the Platonic Ideas

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I just finished reading some background material for the dissertation, an essay by Harry Wolfson on the interpretation of the Platonic ideas...
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Friday, June 27, 2008

The Remnant Church

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Here's a bit that might please Protestants in some ways if not in others: Nihilominus tamen verum est quod sacramentum Baptismi prodest ...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Gonsalvus Redivivus!

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In the fourteenth century, at least. This is for Michael, a quote from Petrus Thomae's Quodlibet   q.3 from a question about whether ite...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Additio auctoris incerti

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The following 'addition of uncertain authorship' on the essential unity of spiritual and corporeal matter is appended to Distinction...
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