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22/12/2016

Space and time in Christian philosophy 2

Just as happened with the sense of time, the novelty of faith also illuminated the constitution of the terrestrial city itself. St. Thomas, in political philosophy, gathers the accomplishments of the aristotelian and stoic ethics; the patristic contributions and those of St. Augustine; several [...]

08/12/2016

Space and time in Christian philosophy

The historical interpretation by Christian philosophers was progressive and linear. It can be said that St. Augustine founded the theology of history, or at least leaded this reflection beyond the usual limits reached until then. The ordination of time is not made on the basis of an initial [...]

29/09/2016

The proofs of the existence of God 4

The fifth way starts from the dynamic finite being, but not in the formality of movement or activity, but in that of the direction or ordination towards an end. Every moved’s movement has a direction towards an end. There is certainly an ordination towards an end in the activity of living [...]

28/04/2016

The proofs of the existence of God 3

The starting point of the first way is the movement realised in one being. What moves is moved by another one, i.e., whatever moves goes from potenciality to actuality, but anything goes from potentiality to actuality by itself. Movement can only be explained as a transition from [...]

31/03/2016

The proofs of the existence of God 2

We call natural law to any necessary and immutable relation given between the natures of things; but this law aquires in man a special classification, for his will aims to universal good and is free from partial goods. The starting point of this proos is correct: the existence of a natural [...]

03/03/2016

The proofs of the existence of God

The philosophical theism or the affirmation of God as First Cause of the being of entities was the main issue of Christian philosophy, along with the existential unity of the human person and the intellectual validity of the access to being – or realistic noetics. The development of the [...]

27/08/2015

The possibility of theodicy

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 [...]

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 [...]

28/04/2015

Contingency of the created Being II

One of the Greek categories that received more modifications was that of the substance. Gilson describes thomistic metaphysics as existential, since Being is substance in Aristotle’s philosophy, but substance becomes created in Aquinas’ thesis. For a believer, contingency means [...]

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