Aquinas! Aquinas! Aquinas!

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Yes, you can read Thomas Aquinas. But why spend the time? You would be better off reading scripture and staying away from Greek philosophical “explanations” and “proofs.”
About the only thing that I got of value from Aquinas was something I learned in a course in Philosophy of Man at university. Aquinas was of the opinion that the will naturally goes toward the good, and the intellect presents alternative actions to the will in varying gradations of good. The result of this concept is that the correct Thomistic answer to any and all questions of the sort “Whatever posessed you to do THAT?” is “It seemed a good idea at the time.”

Matthew
 
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Yes, you can read Thomas Aquinas. But why spend the time? You would be better off reading scripture and staying away from Greek philosophical “explanations” and “proofs.”
About the only thing that I got of value from Aquinas was something I learned in a course in Philosophy of Man at university. Aquinas was of the opinion that the will naturally goes toward the good, and the intellect presents alternative actions to the will in varying gradations of good. The result of this concept is that the correct Thomistic answer to any and all questions of the sort “Whatever posessed you to do THAT?” is “It seemed a good idea at the time.”

Matthew
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In other words, even in a relatively cursory examination of Aquinas, you got something of value.

Perhaps if you studied him more, you would get even more of value. Perhaps you might even learn not to be glib and dismissive in your attitude to the life of the mind.

Edwin
 
I’m for a study of St. Thomas. Not the cliff notes. PM if it is really going to happen. I’d be happy to devote the time.

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Dear Edwin,
I am not being glib about Aquinas, I’m only showing how silly some of the threads of metaphysical thought can truly be. This is why I do OLP instead of metaphysics.
Please note that I live, due to a peculiarity of neurology, primarily in my own mind. Glib about the life of the mind, when it is nearly the only life I have? Impossible.

Matthew
 
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