Word: thomistic
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Although Chicago's President Robert M. Hutchins is chairman of St. John's Board of Visitors and Governors, St. John's is not his creature to do with as he wishes. It was pointed out to us that there is less of Hutchins' Aristotelian-Thomist bias than he would probably like to have in the curriculum, and that he probably disapproved of the laboratory repetition of scientific experiments from Eucltd to Mendel. The 25 teachers at St. John's who guide the destinies of 125 students (half the college's capacity) have their own ideas...
...modern man. He has not been bullied out of his position by scornful a priori; he realizes that the only defense of Thomas Aquinas is in explanation of his ideas, and of the simple principles upon which those ideas were founded. He shows that the Thomist philosophy was a great balance between the exaggerations of realism and idealism which preceded it, and that the exaggerations of realism and idealism which are the dominant philosophical schools of the modern world, might find, for the second time, that Thomism alone can balance them, and form an unshackled instrument for the exploration...
...chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many vacant benches at his first lecture. So with theological students they packed the auditorium. They need not have done...