Friday, September 26, 2008

Hermetic Esotericism

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Mr Jones and his commenter Fr Maximus have discovered our secrets at last. Re my latest: "If there ever was sophistry, this is it. . . ...
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St Thomas on Existence/Essence and Identity

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Mr Jones at Energetic Processions offers the following from St Thomas: “Therefore that thing, whose existence differs from its essence, must...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Feigned Erudition

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"Many men" (saith Seneca) "had been without question wise, had they not had an opinion that they had attained to perfection o...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

The Photian Argument

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Photius negat posse dari quid notionale commune duabus personis, sed ait quidquid non est commune tribus personis esse personale, et propriu...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

The Authority of the (Thomistic) Manuels

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What do you all think about this? "...the unanimous teaching of the scholastic theologians in any area relating to faith or morals is t...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

Bonaventure on the Distinction between Person and Nature

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In III Sententiarum d.5 a.2 q.2: "In hunc autem errorem pessimum decidit Nestorius, ut dicit Boethius, pro eo quod nescivit distinguer...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

In honorem Ioannis Duns Scoti

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by Fray Angelico chavez of New Mexico, written ca. 1925-1932 O Maria Immaculata, Scoti tu victoria, Sic concepta sicque nata Es Minorum glor...
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Uh-oh

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"...a nation's civilization and refinement depends on the superiority of the philosophy which is practised there." -Descartes,...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Bonaventure on the Difference between Nature and Essence

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In III Sententiarum , d.5 a.2 q.1 ad 4: "In hoc enim differt essentia a natura, quia essentia nominat rei formam in quadam abstractione...
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Friday, September 12, 2008

Bonaventura Pius

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Been busy with the dissertation and the Logica Scoti , but will try to post more for our hordes of adoring fans. Here's some nice, pious...
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Scotus is Not For Children

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Multis amara sunt grammatices praecepta: Aristotelis ethice non est apta peueris: theologia Scoti minus; ne viris quidem admodum utilis ad ...
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Monday, September 1, 2008

A Glimpse of Spiritual Matter in the Fourteenth Century

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For Michael, an interesting snippet from the Carmelite theologian Guido Terrena's (died ca. 1340) Quaestiones ordinarie q.2: "Et i...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

King Bonaventure

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I came across the following quote from Stephen Brulifer, comparing Bonaventure and Scotus: "Unde merito comparatur hic doctor, S. Bon. ...
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In the Octave of the Assumption

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This day the Ark of the living God, even the holy and living Ark, wherin once its own Maker had been held, is borne to its resting place in ...
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Word of the Day: Aliusitas

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Today's word of the day is aliusitas. It apparently is a certian kind of alietas. I am not exactly sure what kind. As one might surmise,...
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