Sublime

“God,” to Thomas, is merely a label we place at the spot where we wonder, “Why is there something rather than nothing? What does it all mean? Why anything rather than nothing?” Aquinas knew he could not provide a fully satisfying answer. “God” is the label Christians use for the human question of “meaning.” As McCabe concludes, “We do not and canno

Cosimo founded and Lorenzo continued the Florentine Academy, which was largely devoted to the study of Plato.

It is the highest thing. Jesus agrees, proclaiming himself at John 14:6 to be the way, the truth and the life.

Again. Although that which is sometimes potential and sometimes actual, is in point of time potential before being actual, nevertheless actuality is simply before potentiality: because potentiality does not bring itself into actuality, but needs to be brought into actuality by something actual. Therefore whatever is in any way potential has somethi

Occam, he holds, was mainly concerned to restore a pure Aristotle, freed from both Augustinian and Arabic influences.

We now come to the famous doctrine of the golden mean. Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. This is proved by an examination of the various virtues. Courage is a mean between cowardice and rashness; liberality, between prodigality and meanness; proper pride, between vanity and humility; ready wit, between buffoonery

It was remarked by a man of genius that "ignorance lies at the two ends of knowledge.

The single essemodel with which Aquinas works is designed to give us a coherent way of speaking about an uninterrupted created agency which is at the same time in every respect activated, made actually present in the world by the eternal action of the Word.