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What Is the Philosophy of Nature? Review of Feser’s Aristotle’s Revenge
Edward Feser’s Aristotle’s Revenge (Editiones Scholasticae, 2019) is consequently a welcome addition to the late 20th- and early 21st-century resurgence of broadly Aristotelian and Thomistic approaches to the philosophy of nature, and the volume spells out in detail and begins to develop the metaphysical grounds to which Simon refers. It is essential reading for those interested in the topic of the perennial Aristotelian philosophy of nature and its relationship to the particular natural sciences.
Those Two Roads: How a Natural Philosophical Solution to a Difficulty about Motion Serves Thomistic Theology
By JOHN BRUNGARDT, Ph.D.
A consideration of the philosophical notion of motion and how this aids Thomistic theology.
Three Divine Persons Distinguished by Four Real Relations: On the Correct Translation of ST I, Q. 30, A. 2
JOHN O’NEILL, PhD Cand.
Thomas has already identified four relations in God and defined a divine person as a subsisting relation. Why, then, are the four real relations not four persons? Or why are there not only three real relations that subsist?
The Importance of Good Posture
BRETT T. FEGER
Aquinas’ analysis of the physical disposition of man’s posture provides a groundwork from which a meaningful conversation can be had with evolutionary materialists who reduce man to a mere animal.
Marriage: The Greatest of Friendship
JOSHUA MADDEN, PhD
Put briefly, we can say along with Thomas Aquinas that “between husband and wife, it seems, there exists the greatest of friendship.”
Some Mistakes Due to What is Per Accidens
JOHN G. BRUNGARDT, PhD
Against some important philosophical mistakes which occur by the conflation of what is per accidens with what is per se.
St. Thomas Aquinas for Beginners
DAVID A. SMITHER
A very brief introduction to the life and work of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Subordinated Causality as Illustration of Philosophy's Service to Theology
TAYLOR PATRICK O’NEILL, PhD
There is a plethora of examples of the service which philosophy provides to theology. Perhaps one of the best examples is that of subordinated causality.