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CHAPTER XX Aristotle’s Ethics
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Because the force of the argument lies in this, that if a thing moves itself primarily and of itself, not by reason of its parts, it follows that its being moved does not depend on some thing; whereas with a divisible thing, being moved, like being, depends on its parts, so that it cannot move itself primarily and of itself. Therefore the truth of
... See moreSaint Thomas Aquinas • The Summa Contra Gentiles (Illustrated)
The Christian philosopher Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984), in fact, proposed an argument that was intended, in a very complicated and ingenious way, to transform this venerable philosophical intuition into something like a comprehensive philosophical proof, one that moved from the “unrestricted intelligibility” of reality to the reality of God as the
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Experience of God
Truth is incarnate.
C. S. Lewis • Weight of Glory
St Bonaventure (c.1217–74), for instance, governor-general of the order from 1257 to 1274, was a university man and speculative theologian of enormous erudition who succeeded grandly in combining the mystical elations of Franciscan piety with the rational disciplines of academic philosophy.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
As John of Damascus would later put it, here quoted by Thomas later still, “We cannot know what God is, but only what he is not.”
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Philosophy
Nishal Desai • 12 cards
No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. —William Occam