Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

326 MOSESMAIMONIDES Of these foregoing twenty-five propositions some may be verified by means of a lit- tle reflection and the a ...

327 Saint Thomas Aquinas was indisputably the greatest of the medieval philosophers. He was born in his family’s castle of Rocca ...

328 THOMASAQUINAS will bellow so loud his bellowing will fill the world.” In 1252, Thomas returned to Paris for graduate studies ...

INTRODUCTION 329 conflict between the teachings of philosophy and those of theology. To use a later analogy, Thomas believed tha ...

330 THOMASAQUINAS his arguments for a just war). The translation is that of the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. The ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I, Q.2) 331 From St. Thomas Aquinas,Summa Theologica, Treatise on God (Part I, Q. 2); Treatise on Man (Part I, Q ...

332 THOMASAQUINAS this word is signified that thing than which nothing greater can be conceived. But that which exists actually ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I, Q.2) 333 Second Article WHETHERITCANBEDEMONSTRATEDTHATGODEXISTS? We Proceed Thus to the Second Article:— Obje ...

334 THOMASAQUINAS Third Article WHETHERGODEXISTS? We Proceed Thus to the Third Article:— Objection1. It seems that God does not ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I, Q.2) 335 plainly false. Therefore it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which every- one gives ...

336 THOMASAQUINAS TREATISE ONMAN QUESTION 75: OF MAN WHO IS COMPOSED OF A SPIRITUAL AND A CORPOREAL SUBSTANCE: AND IN THE FIRST ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I, Q.76) 337 Therefore the intellectual principle which we call the mind or the intellect has the operation per ...

338 THOMASAQUINAS Obj.2. Further, every form is determined according to the nature of the matter of which it is the form; otherw ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I, Q.76) 339 But if anyone say that the intellectual soul is not the form of the body he must first explain how ...

340 THOMASAQUINAS a. b. c. d. The Gothic Cathedral a. The Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres,Chartres, France, begun in the 114 ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I, Q.76) 341 be attributed to the whole, as the action of the eye is attributed to a man, yet it is never attrib ...

342 THOMASAQUINAS Reply Obj.4. The human soul, by reason of its perfection, is not a form merged in matter, or entirely embraced ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I–II, Q.3) 343 Obj.3. Further, man is made happy by that which lulls his natural desire. But man’s natural desir ...

344 THOMASAQUINAS Obj.2. Further, happiness is the supreme good. But good is the object of the will. Therefore happiness consist ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I–II, Q.3) 345 Reply Obj.3. The intellect apprehends the end before the will does: yet motion towards the end be ...