Word: aquinases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philosophers are seldom in the head lines, yet they are often the true revolutionaries of some succeeding age. Karl Marx blueprinted the political upheavals of the 20th century in the reading room of the British Museum; Soren Kierkegaard's fiery polemics, scorned by the sturdy burghers of Copenhagen, are...
The Nature of Knowing. Lonergan is not an easy thinker to appreciate. His dense, elliptical prose, studded with references to Thomas Aquinas and modern physics, makes its points in a methodical and mind-wearying manner. One typical passage hammers home a conclusion with: "In the thirty-first place . . ." Another problem...
Artists as Moralists. Insight is Lonergan's attempt to understand the human act of understanding-an inquiry into "the dynamism of inquiry" that centers on "a personal appropriation of one's own rational self-consciousness." Lonergan's viewpoint is inherited from Aristotle and Aquinas, but has been...
It is tempting, he suggests, to say that one gets from the LSD encounter what one deserves, but he quotes Aquinas for a more accurate summation: "Quidquid recipietur secundum modum recipientis recipietur"-our nature determines what we receive. But mankind will not always know its present mental limits. "The mind...
We are keen students of Catholic theology. We know the way in which St. Thomas Aquinas reconciled Christian with Aristotelian thought. In the same spirit, your council is now trying to reconcile Christian revelation with contemporary culture.