http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/ Thomism -- St. Thomas Aquinas Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:10:02 GMT Jim Ruddy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2990 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2990 Thomas' position on the knowledge of singulars is that the human intellect knows directly and immaterially only the abstracted essence of a singular thing, Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:33:50 GMT jagiven1370 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2989 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2989 I am grateful for the advice and comments of the group. I should have stated that my central concern is with metaphysics and ontology. Theological concerns, Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:49:20 GMT Jim Ruddy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2988 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2988 ... I don't think this is a happy wording. In fact, there are always TWO relations, each inhering in one of the relata and making it related to the other. This Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:04:08 GMT Lukáš Novák http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2987 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2987 ... John Poinsot is the great synthesiser of the "canonical" late-scholastic thomism; which is based on Cajetan's interpretation and systematization of Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:01:56 GMT Jim Ruddy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2986 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2986 Jim,   (By the way, since 1984, I am no longer a Dominican priest, but have subsequently remained a layman even more devoutly adhering to the Magisterium!) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:47:19 GMT jamesmiguez http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2985 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2985 ... developed by Aquinas, and as elaborated by Scholastics since Thomas' time. ... of St. Thomas, a contemporary of Descartes, who maintained against Suarez Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:01:14 GMT James Given http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2984 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2984 Dear Fr. Jim,   I am extremely interested in this topic of relations, both as developed by Aquinas, and as elaborated by Scholastics since Thomas' time.   In Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:54:32 GMT Jim Ruddy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2982 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2982 Cliff,   Best reference is Summa I, Question 13, art 7, where he divides relation into real, mental and asymmetrically real/mental.   Related references are Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:10:19 GMT Cliff Price http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2981 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2981 Jim: Could you kindly provide a few of the most pertinent references for Thomas' "theory of real and asymmetrical relations"? Cliff (in Berkeley) At 06:08 PM Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:09:31 GMT jim.ruddy@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2980 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2980 Dennis,   I would also like a link to your manuscript. I would be happy to go through it and see how it relates to Thomas' thought. As a Dominican priest, I Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:11:31 GMT jamesmiguez http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2979 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2979 ... almost done. I am still looking for test readers. If any of you who have read parts of the book would like to provide comments/review, I would appreciate Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:58:32 GMT Dennis Polis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2978 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2978 Hello all My book (God, Since and Mind: The Irrationality of Naturalism) is almost done. I am still looking for test readers. If any of you who have read parts Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:08:47 GMT jamesmiguez http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2977 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2977 Working on Gilson's 5th and 5th editions of Le Thomisme, it is a profound, magnificient work, the fruit of 50 years of experience by the truly great historian Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:13:46 GMT aquinas_all_the_way http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2976 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2976 It is well known in Catholicism how faith and reason go together to explicate the truth of Revelation, given to us in the Person of Jesus Christ and foretold Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:35:49 GMT jamesmiguez http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2975 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thomism/message/2975 As we have pointed out before, metaphysically speaking, the proper subject of a human being's knowledge and understanding is the human person. Thus, the