#aquinas — Public Fediverse posts

#Aquinas: "Those who are in great #fear are so intent on their own passion that they pay no attention to the suffering of others." Fear can take over our souls, make us forget our care of others, ruining our potential for making #community, building #friendship, exercising #love. https://bit.ly/453ossb

"The things that we love tell us what we are." - Thomas Aquinas (1225 AD to 1274 AD)

Aquinas operated at the University of Paris. He famously synthesized Aristotelian philosophy with Christian doctrine, building a comprehensive system of natural law.

Source: Summa Theologiae (compiled via Google Gemini)

#GreatThinkers #philosophy #theology #aquinas #scholasticism #middleages #reason

Aquinas students make an impact at the Kane St. Community Garden | La Crosse News https://www.allforgardening.com/1849904/aquinas-students-make-an-impact-at-the-kane-st-community-garden-la-crosse-news/ #aquinas #community #garden #harvest #Impact #kane #produce #street #students #volunteer

#Aquinas: "One of the functions of divine wisdom is to #create. God's #wisdom is that of artists, whose knowledge of what they make is practical as well as theoretical."
Form breaks into multiple expressions. A society that cares about wisdom cares about #creativity. https://bit.ly/453ossb

#Aquinas: "God has produced a work in which the divine likeness is clearly reflected -- I mean by this, the world itself. God's love is not about a private conversation; it goes out universally to all the divine works."
Aquinas challenges us to move from #psychology to #cosmology. https://bit.ly/453ossb

Happy #ThursdayFiveList and Happy Pride with #LGBTQPlusMusicians :QueerCatHeart_Pride: :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

1. HOLLAND - Nar_C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHmBKxkjXeY

2. XG - GALA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cEdndsuzSE

3. JIAE 지애 - Love is Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuZ8xAG_l2A

4. JUSTB - Going South
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1iSnWpTWm4

5. AQUINAS - Oh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quhgLJLMCMc

#KPop #KHipHop #Holland #XG #Jiae #JustB #Aquinas

#CreationSpirituality welcomes #science b/c CS seeks to know all we can abt #nature & #creation. #Aquinas warned in 13th century: "A mistake abt creation results in a mistake abt God." So too, insight abt creation results in insight abt God. bit.ly/4hkaVA6
UNC botanist takes water sample. Wikimedia

Yeah, this tracks. Kinda disappointed I got "0" on Lewis -- I think there were several times my second option would have boosted the #CSLewis-quotient (or #Aquinas for that matter), but I'll take #Luther and #Calvin on top. What's your result? https://whichtheologianareyou.netlify.app

#Christianity #Theology

#Aquinas: " #Conscience is more to be obeyed than authority imposed from outside. By following a right conscience, you not only do not incur sin but are also immune from sin, whatever superiors may say to the contrary." https://bit.ly/4qqZFGo
Photo: AL state troopers beat civil rights protestor John Lewis, 1965; U.S. Embassy, The Hague, on Flickr.

#Aquinas: "The proper objects of the heart are #truth & #justice." One cannot build justice on falsehoods. Those who are engaged in #lies cannot also be engaged in justice-making. "The heart of justice is truth-telling." ~~ bell hooks. https://bit.ly/4qqZFGo

#Aquinas: "God is an #artist & the universe is God's work of art." Think: *you* are God's work of art, not a sinner, wretch, or object of judgment or wrath from a punitive father-god in the sky. "How could God hate a single thing, as God is the artist of everything?" https://bit.ly/4qqZFGo

#Aquinas: A #tyrant fears good persons more than bad persons, for he dreads their strange virtue. Yes, virtue is strange to those bent on power, e.g. T calling those who died for #democracy #suckersandlosers. Their virtue is utterly strange to him. #NoKings bit.ly/AQ45 bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

Aquinas and the Ethics of Happiness by Joseph Stenberg, 2025

Aquinas sees the key elements of his ethics - happiness, law, virtue, and grace - as an interconnected whole. However, he seldom steps back to help his reader see how they actually fit together. In this book, Joseph Stenberg reconsiders the most fundamental ways in which Aquinas connects these major elements of his ethics.

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#Socrates #Plato #Aristotle #Aquinas #Descartes #Locke #Kant #Hegel #Schopenhauer #Marx #Nietzsche #Heidegger #Arendt #Adorno #Derrida #Wittgenstein

Thomas Aquinas died from head trauma, study suggests https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/thomas-aquinas-died-from-head-trauma-study-suggests/ #Aquinas

#Aquinas: "The state-community should be such that everything sufficient for the needs of human life is found in it. #PoliticalJustice exists among the #free and #equal; in people who do not have freedom and justice, there is not found political justice." https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/13/aquinas-on-justice-the-cosmos-the-common-good-the-rich/
Photo: #JusticeThurgoodMarshall statue on MD State House grounds

You’re about to be triggered by some #Augustine and #Aquinas references, mis hermanos en jesucristo.
https://sfba.social/@dangrsmind/113975988306183442

Thomas Aquinas died from head trauma, study suggests https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/thomas-aquinas-died-from-head-trauma-study-suggests/ #Aquinas #medieval #medical

How Thomas Aquinas Influenced Economic Theory and Practice https://www.medievalists.net/2022/12/thomas-aquinas-economic/ #Aquinas #History #Economics

If you're on Tiktok I'm doing a series on the Correspondence Theory of #Truth in #philosophy https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdrQPxaD/

Covered so far: #Aristotle #Aquinas #Wittgenstein #Daston #Heraclitus

New Medieval Books: A Brief Life of Thomas Aquinas: The Theologian in His Context, by Jean-Pierre Torrell https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/new-medieval-books-a-brief-life-of-thomas-aquinas/ #Aquinas #Books #NewBooks

Relics of St. Thomas Aquinas come to Washington D.C. https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/relics-thomas-aquinas-washington/ #Aquinas #WashingtonDC

Here's a new video identifying Fake Quotes that people circulate around the internet, this one focused on those falsely attributed to Thomas Aquinas. 10 fake quotes + 1 bonus fake poem as well!

https://youtu.be/iBa5wXblLno
#FakeQuotes #Thomas #Aquinas #Philosophy #Theology #Mistakes

Thomas #Aquinas, you should recall for the next time this comes up with some anti-abortion kook, said abortion is not murder in his graduate thesis on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. He only frowns on it as another form of birth control, something the Catholic church still opposes and most Catholics have used anyway for the price of a few Hail Marys.

https://books.google.com/books?id=b3p3sr24p5kC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA182&dq=%22still%20is%20less%20than%20a%20homicide%22&pg=PA182#v=onepage&q=%22still%20is%20less%20than%20a%20homicide%22&f=false

Melania Trump agrees with Thomas #Aquinas that #abortion is not #murder, though she wonders why anyone would care.

https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-melania-trump-abortion-1964177

The default of #Aquinas in Bertrand Russell's words is that "he does not, like the Platonic #Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead. (...) The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not #philosophy, but special pleading." #religion

Coming up at Noon Central Time today, I'll be premiering another of my Self-Directed Study Advice videos, this time on Thomas Aquinas' works and thought. I'll be answering questions participants leave in the live chat!

https://youtu.be/6toQ010_hVk
#Video #Advice #Thomas #Aquinas #Philosophy #Theology #Study #Independent #ContinuingEducation