These three statements of agnosticism that we have just seen arise from nominalism. The contingent composition of created beings expresses an internal tension that nominalism loses when it states that only the concrete individual can be object of science. If intuition is restricted to perception [...]

21/08/2015

Unpublished: St Agustin

CHAPTER VI To overcome the devil and the world have to submit the body 6. The same Apostle teaches us when he says, I do not fight like one who whips the air but punishing my body and reduce it to servitude, lest while I preach to others, be found reprobate. And he also says: Be imitators, [...]

15/08/2015

Review: The Lord

The Lord by Romano Guardini, Pope Benedict XVI (Introduction). Paperback, 629 pages Published September 1st 1996 by Gateway Editions. ISBN 0895267144 Romano Guardini was the son of Italian parents. He lived most of his life in Germany, where his father worked as a diplomat. Priest of the [...]

13/08/2015

The ontological communication 2

There is a mediation between God and the world, constituted by the operation that metaphysically becomes the very identity of the entity. The unity of the original ontological communication can not be isolated as an absolute moment in the unity of a formal concept because it expresses a result [...]

06/08/2015

The ontological communication

The final cause causes the causality of the efficient cause, but not its entity. The text clearly shows that health is the aim – finality - of the task of the doctor, but it does not make the doctor being doctor, if anything, it makes the doctor to act. On the other hand, the [...]