Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900226
Daniel Parkinson
HE TRANSCENDENTALS are elaborated by Thomas Aquinas as “additions” to being (ens), such that “the one” (unum), “the true” (verum), and “the good” (bonum) are all explicitly said to be “convertible” with being in reality, and “add” to it only in idea, by expressing something not explicit in the term “being” itself. They are those perfections in which all existing things participate as a necessary condition of their existence, and the coextension of the transcendentals with being means that they are also convertible with one another. Therefore, Aquinas states that the true and the good, for instance, are convertible with one another in subject, and differ from one another only logically. In his most extensive discussions of “the beautiful” (pulchrum), Aquinas states in very similar terms that it is identical with goodness in a thing, differing only logically because it adds to the good a relation to the cognitive power. Likewise, beauty and goodness are said to be convertible with
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900233
Michael A. Dauphinais
thought and modern democratic liberalism—one notes in McCormick’s volume the sort of hopes and longings one associates with Jacques Maritain or John Courtney Murray. McCormick, however, is ultimately more sober or realistic about such hopes being realized in our troubled age. Sounding something like Plato, in the final pages of his volume McCormick appeals to “a spirituality of politics” existing at least for now only in speeches and prayers, and not to a regime that could actually come into being anytime soon.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900225
D. Spezzano
I truly believe and know for certain that this is true God and man, the Son of God the Father and of the Virgin mother, and so I believe in my soul and confess in words what is stated by the priest about this most holy sacrament. . . . I receive you, price of the redemption of my soul; I receive you, viaticum of my pilgrimage, for the love of whom I have studied, kept vigil, and labored. You I have preached and taught; I have never said anything against you.1
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900230
John S. Grabowski
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900231
F. Miller
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900235
J. Canning
diversity” (132). The principle of “analogical similarity enables the mind to transcend duality and diversity, to perceive unity in bipolar tension”; through analogy “opposites are not rescinded nor tension abandoned” but enabled to display “mutual enrichment, allowing reciprocal comparisons and the exchange of attributes” (161). As O’Rourke astutely shows through careful analysis of a judiciously selected set of passages from Joyce’s fiction, the philosophical thought of Aristotle and Aquinas informs Joyce’s reflections on a wide array of topics, including “authentic selfhood and authorial identity” (4). The poet W. B. Yeats once remarked that “Joyce’s work incites to philosophy” (7). Yet that does not mean that we should go to Joyce expecting extended philosophical arguments or that what is of value in a literary work is its residue of philosophy. As O’Rourke wisely notes, “a writer who overtly uses his medium to convey a philosophical message will damage his art” (234). Too much emphasis on philosophy makes for either bad literature or bad readings of literature. Joyce came of age as an author in a period in which artistic and literary theory began to flourish, an era in which theory seemed at least as important as the text or work of art itself. Yet his accent on the mystery of concrete reality lends an anti-theoretical bent to his writings. As he puts it in Finnegan’s Wake: “let us leave theories there and return to here’s here” (109). That places Joyce comfortably within a broadly Aristotelian approach to human action, one that had already been revived by John Henry Newman, an important influence on Joyce, and that would soon become a feature of an Anglo-American movement in ethics informed equally by Aristotle and Wittgenstein.
多样性”(132)。“类比相似性使心灵超越二元性和多样性，在两极的张力中感知统一”的原则;通过类比，“对立面没有被消除，也没有被抛弃”，而是能够显示“相互丰富，允许相互比较和交换属性”(161)。奥罗克通过对乔伊斯小说中精心挑选的一组段落的仔细分析，敏锐地表明，亚里士多德和阿奎那的哲学思想贯穿了乔伊斯对一系列广泛主题的思考，包括“真实的自我和作者身份”(4)。诗人叶芝曾经说过，“乔伊斯的作品激发了哲学”(7)。然而，这并不意味着我们应该期待延伸的哲学论证去看乔伊斯，也不意味着文学作品中有价值的是它的哲学残余。正如O 'Rourke明智地指出的那样，“一个作家公然使用他的媒介来传达哲学信息，将损害他的艺术”(234)。过分强调哲学会导致糟糕的文学或糟糕的文学阅读。乔伊斯成长于一个艺术和文学理论开始蓬勃发展的时代，在这个时代，理论似乎至少与文本或艺术作品本身一样重要。然而，他对具体现实的神秘性的强调使他的作品具有一种反理论的倾向。正如他在《芬尼根守灵夜》中所说:“让我们把理论留在那里，回到这里”(109)。这将乔伊斯置于宽泛的亚里士多德式的人类行为研究方法之中，这一方法已经被约翰·亨利·纽曼(John Henry Newman)复兴，纽曼对乔伊斯产生了重要影响，并很快成为英美伦理运动的一个特征，亚里士多德和维特根斯坦对这一运动也有同样的影响。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900236
K. Chabi
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900228
Innocent Smith
N THE SECOND HALF of the sixteenth century, in the wake of decrees of the Council of Trent calling for more frequent preaching by bishops and parish priests, a new type of exegetical tool was developed for pastors who sought to draw on the theological insights of St. Thomas Aquinas in their preaching. While the Tridentine call for a renewal of preaching and the production of exegetical tools for preachers were rooted in pastoral currents dating back to the thirteenth
16世纪下半叶，在特伦特大公会议(Council of Trent)颁布法令，要求主教和教区牧师更频繁地讲道之后，一种新型的训导工具被开发出来，供那些在讲道中寻求圣托马斯·阿奎那(St. Thomas Aquinas)神学见解的牧师使用。而三叉戟节呼吁布道的复兴以及为布道者提供训诂工具的生产根植于可追溯到13世纪的牧灵潮流
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900232
Douglas Kries
in a potential or actual state, and it is when both are actual that they become the same: “the act of understanding (noēsis) is one with the [actual] object of understanding (nooumenon)” (Metaphys. 12.9.1075a4-5 [my translations]). This presents a problem for Kelsey’s general claim that to be intelligible is to be an activity of intelligence. Second, Aristotle’s frequent remark that we should start from what is “poorly knowable” (phaulōs gnōston) but knowable to us and proceed to the knowledge of what is knowable “in itself by nature” implies that objects are intelligible in an objective sense alien to Kelsey’s interpretation (see Metaphys. 7.3.1029b3-11; this is quoted by Kelsey on page 156 but an important part is missing). To sum up, Kelsey stakes out an original interpretation and defends it forcefully. Even those who are not convinced will gain valuable insights, especially concerning Aristotle’s concept of measure and his emphasis on intelligence as active process rather a mere passive reception of forms. It is a must read for any scholar of Aristotle’s epistemology.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1353/tho.2023.a900227
John Baptist Ku
HIS ARTICLE WILL consider the fittingness of Mary’s virginity in birth, in three sections. First, to establish the definitiveness of the doctrine, I will conduct a brief review of early patristic teaching on Mary’s virginitas in partu, with an appended observation about the most recent confirmation of the doctrine in the teaching of the Second Vatican Council. Second, I will consider some potential difficulties with the teaching, as the problems might be more obvious than the fittingness. Finally, in response to the potential difficulties, I will note the three reasons that St. Thomas Aquinas gives for Mary’s virginity in birth in the Summa theologiae, and I will propose the addition of a fourth Thomistic reason. This last reason, which appeals to the fact that Christ had the beatific vision from the moment of his conception, is the principal point I wish to present. The rest provides context for my modest contribution.
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