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Zhuangzi and Aquinas on Simultaneous Emotions
This essay is dedicated to exploring the experience of multiple, perhaps conflicting, emotions occurring at the same time. Though this experience is...
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Divine Relations: Jīva Gosvāmin and Thomas Aquinas on Acintya and Mystery
I argue that Jīva Gosvāmin’s (c. 1517–1608 ad ) concept of acintya and Thomas Aquinas’s (1225–1274 ad ) concept of mystery are similar. To make this...
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Aquinas and Kierkegaard
In this chapter two contrasting views within the Christian tradition regarding the place of religious knowledge in religion are treated. One, which...
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Mencius and Aquinas
This reconsideration of the descriptive and normative components of my earlier comparisons of Mencius and Aquinas suggests that the strengths of...
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Aquinas, perversor philosophiae suae
In the closing passages of his De unitate intellectus, Thomas Aquinas makes some indignant remarks about the use of language and the philosophical...
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Faith overcoming metaphysics: Gianni Vattimo and Thomas Aquinas on being
This paper considers Gianni Vattimo’s rejection of metaphysical conceptions of being in favor of a hermeneutic ontology developed along the lines of...
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Thomas Aquinas on the Ontology of the Political Community
Does Aquinas have a theory of social ontology? It is not easy to answer this question. On the one hand, Aquinas never discusses the ontology of those...
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Thomas Aquinas’ Mathematical Realism
In this book, philosopher Jean W. Rioux extends accounts of the Aristotelian philosophy of mathematics to what Thomas Aquinas was able to import from...
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Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on Charity and the Common Good
This article draws attention to the conception of charity found in two important Dominican theologians of the thirteenth century, namely Albert the...
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Thoughts About Things: Aquinas, Buridan and Late Medieval Nominalism
Gyula Klima has argued that the disagreements between Nominalists and Realists in the middle ages, as exemplified in the views of John Buridan and...
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Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis on First and Second Intentionality
Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis (†1323) share a correlational theory of intentionality. When I cognize a thing, I am in a real relation with the...
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“The Essential Differentiae of Things are Unknown to Us”: Thomas Aquinas on the Limits of the Knowability of Natural Substances
Thomas Aquinas is often presented as a philosopher with a realist and optimistic attitude toward human knowledge. This is essentially true....
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Do Accidents Contain Inhering in a Substance in Their Definition? Aquinas vs the Arts Masters and the Background in Avicenna
We draw out the line of argument in Avicenna according to which being in act (wujūd bi-l-fi‘l) is not in the definitional content of the ten...
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Speaking in Christ’s Person: Thomas Aquinas on the Semantics and Pragmatics of the Words of Consecration
Thomas Aquinas says that the eucharistic words of consecration – ‘This is my body’ (‘Hoc est corpus meum’) – are uttered by the consecrating priest...
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Swinburne on Aquinas’ View of Faith
In recent decades, Richard Swinburne has offered an influential view of the relationship between faith and reason. In doing so, he focused to a...
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Thomas Aquinas Versus Roger Bacon
Both St Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon come with large reputations. Aquinas is thought to epitomize faith. In 1879, Pope Leo XIII declared Aquinas’s...
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Ipsius consumptive sive distraction: Money, Interest, and Capital in Thomas Aquinas
The long theological and juridical tradition of monetary theory in the Latin West culminates in Thomas’ interpretation. Moving from Aristotle, Thomas...
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Aquinas’ Solution of the Problem of the Persistence of Accidents in the Eucharist and Its Impact on Later Developments in the European History of Ideas
This chapter focuses on how Aquinas’ solution of the problem of the persistence of eucharistic species and other scholastics’ reactions to it opened...
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Thomas Aquinas on the Vegetative Soul
This short chapter explores Aquinas’s teaching on the vegetative soul. At first glance, Aquinas does not seem too interested in the vegetative soul,...
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The Aesthetics of St Thomas Aquinas and the Art of the Beautiful Business
Organizational Aesthetics describe the beauty of artifacts and activities within the business, whereas organizational and management theories focus...