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Your occasional reminder that should be constant, frankly, that #henryKissinger flies in the face of #ThomasAquinas' assertion that there is no evil man only ignorant
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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Nate's reference to C2K made me chuckle about my eclectic road. I'm #Calvinist and #TwoKingdoms, but my 2K theology came by way of #Luther. I'm a Calvinist who believes in #NaturalLaw, but my natural law theology came by way of Thomas. In every theological circle, I speak with an accent.
#ThomasAquinas #Thomism #MartinLuther #Calvinism #Christianity
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The image of Albertus Magnus is from a 16th-century engraving. #31DaysofHaunting #MythologySky #FolkloreSky #CatholicSky #OccultSky #AlchemySky #Mythology #Folklore #Catholicism #Saint #Occult #Alchemy #Automaton #AlbertusMagnus #ThomasAquinas
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🚨 BREAKING: Medieval Monk Solves World's Problems with ✨ #Positivity ✨! Thomas Aquinas channels his inner motivational speaker, declaring the world as "divine" despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. 😇📜 Please enjoy this philosophical detour as we all collectively roll our eyes. 🙄
https://ralphammer.com/thomas-aquinas-the-world-is-divine/ #MedievalMonk #Philosophy #ThomasAquinas #DivineHumor #EyeRoll #HackerNews #ngated -
@littlehillschurch Hello again @Gustodon. To answer your question, several things could be said. I'll try to take the approach I think might be most helpful to your inquiry, but I'm always happy to have a good exploration of #faith and #doubt and such. I'm starting out with an oversimplified philosophical approach for the bones of conversation.
1.) As philosophers over time have asserted, it is good and reasonable to look for a #FirstCause, etc. I deeply appreciate #ThomasAquinas's Five Ways.
2.) The question then is what sort of "#God" fits the deity of #1. I think only a few of the things/people/entities people have worshipped or do worship could even possibly fit #1. (E.g. Zeus could not, because "he" was not first, etc.)
3.) Of that much reduced set, I believe a mix of historical points speak well of the God of the #Bible. This point could be expanded a lot.
4.) Archetypally, I believe the Bible speaks to things our psyche expects in the most complete way of the available options. C.S. Lewis wrote well on this following, as I do, some of the observations of Carl Jung.
5.) Evidentially, the Bible describes our world's fallen, broken condition in a way that conforms to objective observation. I've often said if I didn't think there was a God, I'd be a Theravada Buddhist. But because I affirm the things above, Christianity speaks to the same sort of "suffering" but with the hope of a solution beyond cessation of existence because of the existence of a personally relatable First Cause.
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That's the rational answer. The personal answer is different, but coherently related. I believe I've encountered the living God and He is the one who has enabled me to believe, not the reverse.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
-- Thomas Aquinas⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ThomasAquinas #Life #Love
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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#ThomasAquinas: " #Christ teaches the #dignity of #human nature ...and the full participation in #Divinity which is truly humanity's #happiness & the goal of human life." #MeisterEckhart: indeed the #nobility or #royalty of #ordinary people was at the heart of #Jesus' teaching. https://bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
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« Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate. »
— Thomas Aquinas
#quotes #ThomasAquinas #light #truth #sharing #contemplation #illumination #teaching
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« An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates. »
— Thomas Aquinas
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/731474155841683456/an-angel-can-illuminate-the-thought-and-mind-of
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« Truth is the ultimate end of the whole universe. »
― Thomas Aquinas
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/724319665725358080/truth-is-the-ultimate-end-of-the-whole-universe
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« Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate. »
— Thomas Aquinas
#quotes #ThomasAquinas #light #truth #sharing #contemplation #illumination #teaching
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« An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision, and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates. »
— Thomas Aquinas
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/731474155841683456/an-angel-can-illuminate-the-thought-and-mind-of
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Parker et al. intend to impose those ancient, pre-modern, pre-scientific, misogynistic authority figures —by way of highly selected texts — on all of us, and to claim that these highly selected texts represent "the" tradition set in stone for all eternity. Take it or leave it. "The" tradition says. And law now says, as it cites these authorities.
Reject this and call it nonsense, and you're rejecting God and calling down "His" wrath.
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So OF COURSE Alabama judge Parker would be a fanboy of Thomas Aquinas, since what he and his party want to do with their attacks on abortion and IVF and, in all likelihood soon, contraception, is to control women.
What Parker et al. are about is finding ancient authorities imbued with patriarchal, pre-scientific assumptions, to impose as "the" authorities on 21st-century thinking about human reproduction.
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• In pregnancy, a woman is merely an incubator for what really matters in the process of reproduction, the "little man" that the male, as the active agent of reproduction, places in the passive receptacle provided by the female.
• Sperm, what happens to it, where it goes, what it does, whether its potential to create life is respected, is supreme in this sexual ethical system. Males count supremely. Women are…just there.
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• Hovering in the background of this thinking is the assumption — here Aquinas is indebted to Aristotle, who knew nothing much about the actual biological facts of reproduction — that sperm is sacred. Sperm is life itself, in this way of thinking. Wasting sperm militates against life itself.
• Aristotle and Aquinas thought that reproduction involves the penis placing in the passive receptacle of the womb a "little man," a homunculus.
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• Therefore anything — anything at all — that interferes with the "natural" purpose of human reproduction is deeply sinful. Whether that "anything" be masturbation, homosexual sex, contraception, coitus interruptus: anything.
• With this line of reasoning, Aquinas taught that for a man to rape a woman is less sinful than for a man to masturbate. Rape at least does not thwart the "natural" purpose of sexuality, while masturbation does.
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• Aquinas' neoscholastic theology was long the foundation of Catholic theology in general.
• Aquinas' natural-law theology, which draws heavily on the philosophy of Aristotle (and on Aristotle's biological assumptions), remains foundational for official Catholic teaching about sexual morality.
• This theology teaches that "nature" demonstrates, if we think about it, that the purpose of sexual intercourse is reproduction.
#ThomasAquinas #TomParker #Alabama #IVF #reproduction #embryos
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In addition to a 17th-century Dutch theologian (Petrus van Mastricht) and the King James bible, one of the authorities cited by Alabama chief justice Parker in his ruling on IVF is the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas. Parker's ruling cites Aquinas six times.
As someone with an M.A. and Ph.D. in historical theology — from a Catholic university — I know a little about Aquinas. Here are some salient points:
#ThomasAquinas #TomParker #Alabama #IVF #reproduction #embryos
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#RichardSwinburne - Why is There '#Something' Rather Than '#Nothing'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpBDx2qB7rU
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Existence #Cosmology #PhilosophyOfCosmology #Religion #God #Metaphysics #Universe #Causation #Contingency #ThomasAquinas #Aquinas #Being #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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The argument from #morality is the apologist argument that #God is the source of all morality, and therefore, if objective morality exists, God must exist. It's also taken as an opportunity to claim one's own religion is the only true one, and better than all the others.
A particular form of it is Thomas Aquinas' argument that the moral part of the Mosaic Law could be deduced from natural law. A further extension is that all morality comes from scripture, which in turn is the word of God.
It is one of the seven arguments that William Lane Craig has built his originality-free public speaking career on — he has rehearsed it to death and uses it in almost literally every single public appearance.
Taking the implications of the argument from morality seriously notoriously causes a bluescreen in terms of both ethics and logic. Oops.
#RationalWiki #apologetics #thomasaquinas #williamlanecraig
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Existentialism.
What makes a good life? Existentialists believed we should embrace freedom and authenticity.
In the 20th century Jean-Paul Sartre was a key figure in existentialism:
#existential #exisitentialism #Philosophy #jeanpaulsartre #aristotle @philosophy #thomasaquinas #Sartre #micheldemontaigne
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For #thinkingwithangels #ThomasAquinas is a key author, and I feel it will take me some time to get used to the absolute confidence in his own reasoning powers in which he plots along through his quaestiones.
