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53Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas on What is “Better-Known” in Natural ScienceProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 93 199-225. 2019.Aristotelian commenters have long noted an apparent contradiction between what Aristotle says in Posterior Analytics I.2 and Physics I.1 about how we obtain first principles of a science. At Posterior 71b35–72a6, Aristotle states that what is most universal (καθόλου) is better-known by nature and initially less-known to us, while the particular (καθ’ ἕκαστον) is initially better-known to us, but less-known by nature. At Physics 184a21-30, however, Aristotle states that we move from what is bette…Read more
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292Eternal God: Divine Atemporality in Thomas AquinasIn Darci N. Hill (ed.), News from the Raven: Essays from Sam Houston State University on Medieval and Renaissance Thought, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 262-285. 2014.The recent trend among many philosophers of religion has been to interpret divine eternity as an everlasting temporality in which an omnitemporal God exists in and throughout the whole of time. This is in contrast to the classical account of divine eternity as atemporal, immutable existence. In this paper, Aquinas' use of Boethius's definition of eternity as “the whole, perfect, and simultaneous possession of endless life” is analyzed and explained in contradistinction to Aristotle's definition …Read more
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413Thomas Aquinas: Teacher of Transhumanity?In John Hittinger & Daniel C. Wagner (eds.), Thomas Aquinas: Teacher of Humanity, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 176-187. 2015.
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