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Post by bowie on Jun 11, 2017 17:54:10 GMT 7
Saint Thomas Aquinas O.P. (/əˈkwaɪnəs/; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; 1225 – 7 March 1274), was an Italian[3][4] Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis.[5] The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and the father of Thomism; of which he argued that reason is found in God. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy developed or opposed his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory. Unlike many currents in the Church of the time,[6] Thomas embraced several ideas put forward by Aristotle—whom he called "the Philosopher"—and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity.[7] The works for which he is best known are the Summa Theologiae and the Summa contra Gentiles. His commentaries on Scripture and on Aristotle form an important part of his body of work. Furthermore, Thomas is distinguished for his eucharistic hymns, which form a part of the Church's liturgy.[8]
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Post by bowie on Jun 11, 2017 17:57:46 GMT 7
I remember told to read Aquinas.
Did and did not want to.
Then a window opened.
Not the window Aquinas preached, in fact the opposite.
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Post by buhi on Jun 11, 2017 18:08:48 GMT 7
Nasty, but so is that shit that took generations to eradicate. Not destroy, there for all to read.
And how has it influenced you?
You do not know, correct.
And now we have a new wave of fundamentalism.
So you, some, resort to your ideal of western christian philosophy.
Oh i know you do not know that, but there is the gap .
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Post by rubl on Jun 11, 2017 20:05:47 GMT 7
So what's Bowie asking?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2017 20:11:40 GMT 7
I can't wait to see hip's comment !
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Post by smokie36 on Jun 12, 2017 0:22:33 GMT 7
Didn't Gazza play for Lazio?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2017 5:14:22 GMT 7
I read it but I just have zero interest in the subject buhi. Anyone that argues reason is found in God , needs their head read.
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Post by bowie on Jun 13, 2017 19:16:20 GMT 7
George Berkeley (/ˈbɑːrkli/;[1][2] 12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753) — known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne) — was an Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are only ideas in the minds of perceivers and, as a result, cannot exist without being perceived. Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.
Berkeley College, one of Yale University's 14 residential colleges, is named after George Berkeley.
In 1709, Berkeley published his first major work, An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, in which he discussed the limitations of human vision and advanced the theory that the proper objects of sight are not material objects, but light and colour.[3] This foreshadowed his chief philosophical work, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, in 1710, which, after its poor reception, he rewrote in dialogue form and published under the title Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in 1713.[4]
In this book, Berkeley's views were represented by Philonous (Greek: "lover of mind"), while Hylas (Greek: "matter") embodies the Irish thinker's opponents, in particular John Locke. Berkeley argued against Sir Isaac Newton's doctrine of absolute space, time and motion in De Motu[5] (On Motion), published 1721. His arguments were a precursor to the views of Mach and Einstein.[citation needed] In 1732, he published Alciphron, a Christian apologetic against the free-thinkers, and in 1734, he published The Analyst, a critique of the foundations of calculus, which was influential in the development of mathematics.
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Post by bowie on Jun 13, 2017 19:17:57 GMT 7
"a Christian apologetic against the free-thinkers, "
Interesting as he was a free thinker.
Over to you Hippity.
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Post by buhi on Jun 13, 2017 19:22:00 GMT 7
Stop being mean Bowie.
The existentialists versus the pragmatists, realists, materialists.
Rational versus metaphysics.
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Post by rubl on Jun 13, 2017 19:26:02 GMT 7
Blarney versus Night Soil  |
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Post by buhi on Jun 13, 2017 19:40:12 GMT 7
Blarney versus Night Soil Could be , but i never state i am correct. There is much use in night soil, less in blarney. |
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