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Translatio: Scotus’s Lectura Proof of the Existence of God
Read more: Translatio: Scotus’s Lectura Proof of the Existence of God[Preliminary notes: 1. The translation below is at times extremely wooden and clunky; this is because I have tried to translate as literally as possible. For clarification on a particular phrase or section, leave a comment below. 2. In the text, Scotus first gives the pro et contra arguments for Question 1, then the same…
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Are the Existential Acts of Created Beings Pure Act?
Read more: Are the Existential Acts of Created Beings Pure Act?According to the Thomistic picture, individual created beings are compositions of essence and existential act (esse). The essence stands as potency to the esse which actuates it, resulting in an existing substance. In a paper I am working on and conferencing, I have made the point that the esse of finite (created) beings contains no…
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Translatio: John of St. Thomas, Cursus Philosophicus Thomisticus: Natural Philosophy, Part One, Proemium
Read more: Translatio: John of St. Thomas, Cursus Philosophicus Thomisticus: Natural Philosophy, Part One, ProemiumCursus Philosophicus Thomisticus Second Volume: Natural Philosophy First Part Proem. Philosophy, if it is taken in the whole breadth of its signification, includes every science, for Philosophy is said [to be] as if love or friendship of science: for which reason human reason is called Philosophy by St. Thomas in the preface [of the commentary…
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Translatio: Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences, Prooemium (Part 1)
Read more: Translatio: Bonaventure’s Commentary on the Sentences, Prooemium (Part 1)Prooemium Sancti Bonaventurae In Librum Primum Sententiarum [1] “He has searched the depths of rivers, and has brought forth into light hidden things” [profunda fluviorum scrutatus est, et abscondita produxit in lucem]. Job XXVII, 11 That word, which has been accepted from Job twenty-eight, having been considered more diligently by us uncovers the way for…
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Translatio: The “Defensiones Theologiae” of Capreolus, Prologue I.1
Read more: Translatio: The “Defensiones Theologiae” of Capreolus, Prologue I.1The following is the first in a translatio series which I hope to be an ongoing project translating ancient and medieval texts, especially lesser known texts or those which have not been translated. The translations will come in short bits. My emphasis in translations is on literality rather than style. I am also not a…
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Yandell’s Presentation and Analysis of the First Way
Read more: Yandell’s Presentation and Analysis of the First WayKeith E. Yandell was a respected philosopher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, retiring in 2011. He specialized in the philosophy of religion, and wrote the philosophy of religion volume for the Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy series (which I highly recommend). In that volume, he included a chapter on arguments for monotheism, and spent a…
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