AROL WOJTYŁA drew deep and far-reaching conclusions from the Scholastic principle that acting follows upon being (operari/agere sequitur esse). If one does not consider this principle, the idea underlying his most important work, Person and Act, is incomprehensible and even meaningless, yet it was omitted in the English translation of this study. This article demonstrates how Wojtyła interpreted this principle and used it to explain the relationship between the person and his action. Referring to the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, Wojtyła treats action as a manifestation of a subject’s dynamism and as secondary to the act of existence. The analysis of an act as a
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The personal dimension of Hütter’s book is something shared with Newman’s writings. Warning against the Modernists’ misunderstanding of Newman, Hütter concedes: “What makes Newman vulnerable of being coopted in such a way is . . . his profound personalism, which can easily be misrepresented as an endorsement of modern individualism. Yet it is precisely his focus on the concrete reality of the human person, intellectual and essential, that keeps Newman from becoming a mere reactionary in modern times” (5). I entirely agree that this is true of Newman; but how much of Newman’s person appears in this book? Although I heed Hütter’s concern about “that field of Newman scholarship that pursues an ever-more minute reconstruction of Newman’s thought in its own historical context” (20), it is nevertheless Newman’s person that we need to meet in order to discern his peculiarities of thought, some of which result from the concrete circumstances of the first half of his life that he brought with him to Catholic theology. We cannot rely on Aquinas to fill in the gaps, or else the Newman we meet is also a counterfeit.
{"title":"The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics and Bioethics by Jason T. Eberl (review)","authors":"D. Jones","doi":"10.1353/tho.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"The personal dimension of Hütter’s book is something shared with Newman’s writings. Warning against the Modernists’ misunderstanding of Newman, Hütter concedes: “What makes Newman vulnerable of being coopted in such a way is . . . his profound personalism, which can easily be misrepresented as an endorsement of modern individualism. Yet it is precisely his focus on the concrete reality of the human person, intellectual and essential, that keeps Newman from becoming a mere reactionary in modern times” (5). I entirely agree that this is true of Newman; but how much of Newman’s person appears in this book? Although I heed Hütter’s concern about “that field of Newman scholarship that pursues an ever-more minute reconstruction of Newman’s thought in its own historical context” (20), it is nevertheless Newman’s person that we need to meet in order to discern his peculiarities of thought, some of which result from the concrete circumstances of the first half of his life that he brought with him to Catholic theology. We cannot rely on Aquinas to fill in the gaps, or else the Newman we meet is also a counterfeit.","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130656423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
“Physical pain always mimes death and the infliction of physical pain is always a mock execution.” – Elaine Scarry “Sorrow in the heart exceeds every external wound.” – St. Thomas Aquinas “I am strapped up with a broken rib, of all things. I broke it coughing. I never knew such was possible but I warn you: if you get a cough, buy yourself some cough syrup, don’t just sit around coughing.” – Flannery O’Connor
{"title":"Pain Management, Theological Ethics, and the Problem of Redemptive Suffering: A Thomistic Analysis","authors":"Stewart Clem","doi":"10.1353/tho.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"“Physical pain always mimes death and the infliction of physical pain is always a mock execution.” – Elaine Scarry “Sorrow in the heart exceeds every external wound.” – St. Thomas Aquinas “I am strapped up with a broken rib, of all things. I broke it coughing. I never knew such was possible but I warn you: if you get a cough, buy yourself some cough syrup, don’t just sit around coughing.” – Flannery O’Connor","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115288949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
, while women are normally more ‘personal’ (187, 190, 255), their interests being more ‘holistic’ in that they have a ‘special interest in the living concrete person’ (101): ‘indeed as much [in] their own personal life as [in] other persons and their personal circumstances’” (245). Stein’s view finds some empirical support in Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate , which notes that on average women are more interested in people and men are more interested in things. These differences in interest do not decrease in societies with greater op-portunities for women, places like Sweden in comparison to places like Algeria, but rather increase. This fact suggests that when women have the freedom to select their own occupations, that is, where “patriarchy” is least powerful, the differences between men and women increase rather than decrease (Zhang, Lingshan, et al. “Are Sex Differences in Preferences for Physical Attractiveness and Good Earning Capacity in Potential Mates Smaller in Countries with Greater Gender Equality?”, Evolutionary Psychology 17, no. 2 [2019]). Rist notes that Stein grounds differences such as these in different roles that males and females have in human reproduction and nurture of the very young.
虽然女性通常更“个人化”(187,190,255)，但她们的兴趣更“整体”，因为她们“对活生生的具体人有特殊的兴趣”(101):“实际上，她们对自己的个人生活和对其他人及其个人环境的兴趣一样多”(245)。Stein的观点在Steven Pinker的《The Blank Slate》中得到了一些实证支持，该书指出，平均而言，女性对人更感兴趣，而男性对事物更感兴趣。在妇女机会较多的社会，如瑞典与阿尔及利亚等国相比，这些兴趣差异并没有减少，而是增加了。这一事实表明，当女性有自由选择自己的职业时，即在“父权制”最不强大的地方，男女之间的差异会增加而不是减少(Zhang, Lingshan, et al.)。“在性别更平等的国家，性别对潜在伴侣的外表吸引力偏好和良好收入能力的差异是否更小?”《进化心理学》第17期，no。2[2019])。里斯特指出，斯坦因将这些差异归结为男性和女性在人类繁殖和养育幼儿方面所扮演的不同角色。
{"title":"What is a Person? Realities, Constructs, Illusions by John M. Rist (review)","authors":"C. Kaczor","doi":"10.1353/tho.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":", while women are normally more ‘personal’ (187, 190, 255), their interests being more ‘holistic’ in that they have a ‘special interest in the living concrete person’ (101): ‘indeed as much [in] their own personal life as [in] other persons and their personal circumstances’” (245). Stein’s view finds some empirical support in Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate , which notes that on average women are more interested in people and men are more interested in things. These differences in interest do not decrease in societies with greater op-portunities for women, places like Sweden in comparison to places like Algeria, but rather increase. This fact suggests that when women have the freedom to select their own occupations, that is, where “patriarchy” is least powerful, the differences between men and women increase rather than decrease (Zhang, Lingshan, et al. “Are Sex Differences in Preferences for Physical Attractiveness and Good Earning Capacity in Potential Mates Smaller in Countries with Greater Gender Equality?”, Evolutionary Psychology 17, no. 2 [2019]). Rist notes that Stein grounds differences such as these in different roles that males and females have in human reproduction and nurture of the very young.","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130255786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thomas Aquinas: A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait by Donald S. Prudlo (review)","authors":"Ann W. Astell","doi":"10.1353/tho.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124020729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
of doxological contrition (139), but it seems to me that the thesis is something more like a “discovery,” a treasure found embedded in the prayers of the Byzantine liturgy, that is then worked out (“constructed”) by a close examination of the sources (Scripture and tradition). Anatolios acknowledges that there is much work yet to be done to test and expand his thesis, but he has made an impressive beginning by persuasively demonstrating—in Scripture, tradition, and liturgy— how “doxological contrition” illuminates and expresses the Christian doctrine of salvation.
{"title":"Reading Job with St. Thomas Aquinas ed. by Matthew Levering et al. (review)","authors":"M. Legaspi","doi":"10.1353/tho.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"of doxological contrition (139), but it seems to me that the thesis is something more like a “discovery,” a treasure found embedded in the prayers of the Byzantine liturgy, that is then worked out (“constructed”) by a close examination of the sources (Scripture and tradition). Anatolios acknowledges that there is much work yet to be done to test and expand his thesis, but he has made an impressive beginning by persuasively demonstrating—in Scripture, tradition, and liturgy— how “doxological contrition” illuminates and expresses the Christian doctrine of salvation.","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129211340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"General Index to The Thomist Volume 84 (2020)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/tho.2000.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2000.0047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131540935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saint Thomas’s Theology of the Diaconate","authors":"M. G. Sirilla","doi":"10.1353/tho.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356918,"journal":{"name":"The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117198115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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